HTC, with the aid of several Turkish-backed Syrian factions, made a beeline toward Aleppo, the city Assad recaptured in 2016 after four years of intense airstrikes and ground combat.

ALEPPO, Syria — In this city’s forsaken eastern districts, residents need flashlights if they venture out after dark, to find their way through the rubble that was never cleared. For years a ...

As the sun set on Syria’s north-western city of Aleppo, a group of rebel fighters reached Al-Basel square. Towering over the junction is a statue of president Bashar al-Assad’s brother, Bassel ...

Syria's military said its troops had been withdrawn from Aleppo temporarily "to prepare a counteroffensive." Russia's military, on which Assad has relied to stay in power, launched air strikes in ...

The return of the insurgents to Aleppo was their first since 2016, following a grueling military campaign in which Assad's forces were backed by Russia, Iran and its allied groups.

Although the current insurgency is spreading, to Hama, for instance, some 125 kilometers (78 miles) south of Aleppo, Assad ...

Syrian rebels reached the heart of the city of Aleppo on Friday night in a lightning advance that threatened the regime of Bashar Al-Assad. The push by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) jihadist ...

The 2016 battle for Aleppo was a turning point in the war between Syrian government forces and rebel fighters after 2011 protests against Assad’s rule turned into an all-out war.

Young men, some of them rebel fighters, on a giant statue on Wednesday in Aleppo, Syria, that previously depicted Basil al-Assad, former President Bashar al-Assad’s late brother, riding a horse.

Within 72 hours, incredibly, they had expelled Assad’s troops from large swathes of Aleppo. HTS’s triumph restored a rebel presence to Aleppo for the first time in eight ...