Lebanon’s new president and former army commander Joseph Aoun has maintained a low profile. Bilal Saab, a former Pentagon ...

In-depth: Daraya, an epicentre of non-violent resistance, faced massacres and starvation under the Assad regime. Now free, ...

As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...

The Syrian Free Army "values its partnership with the United States in the fight against ISIS," Colonel Anteri told Newsweek.

But as a new government takes shape in Damascus, Syrians and foreign observers alike worry about how inclusive, ...

When the Syrian regime began to collapse, rebel forces took advantage of the vacuum in power and began to expand their area ...

Former opposition groups — some of whom are U.S.-trained — will be knitted together into new Syrian security forces organized ...

Before Assad's fall, al-Bayyaa said, he spent 10 years in hiding to avoid a call-up for reserve army service and was afraid to cross a checkpoint in his own neighborhood. After the former Syrian ...

They both went from prison to the army. How much were you paid ... we want to step on your head. Syria is free. Raise your head up high. Syria is free. UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Chanting in Arabic).

Advertisement Opposition forces, who fought for 14 years to free the country from the brutal ... Advertisement The Syrian Army already knew it was a losing battle and refrained from fighting.

This movement later merged into the Free Syrian Army (FSA), a coalition of secular and Islamist rebel groups. Alongside the FSA, more ideologically extreme factions gained prominence, including the Al ...