Turkey's ultimate goal is to topple the Kurdish Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, where the Democratic Union ...

When he returned home in 2011, after a five-year stint in an American-run prison camp in Iraq, it was as the emissary of ...

Rather than coming out of nowhere, the dynamics that led to the HTS rebels' offensive in Syria have been building for a long ...

Analysis: With thousands having already fled the rebel offensive in Aleppo and surrounding areas, Syrian Kurds fear for their ...

The regime has stopped giving us reasons to keep supporting it.” What is clear is that HTS, along with other factions under Turkish tutelage, have decided to seize the opportunity created by the ...

Syrian forces are battling insurgents just north of the strategic central city of Hama where they are attempting to advance ...

The Middle East is today more repressive than it was in 2010. The authoritarian regimes that have emerged since 2011 have ...

In the Levant, Syria’s smoldering civil war flared up, with an apparently reformed Islamist terrorist organization retaking the northern city of Aleppo. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, surprised even ...

Against the backdrop of recent Syrian military setbacks, the nationalist leader criticized the government's reluctance to ...

Sham—or Commission for the Liberation of the Levant—brushed aside the Army’s 46 Regiment and captured Aleppo for the second ...

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Sham, which now defines itself as a Syrian revolutionary Islamist movement, is at the forefront of the conquest of Aleppo and ...