Eight years ago, Syria’s civil war shifted in President Bashar Al-Assad’s favor after a Russian blitzkrieg on Aleppo helped him regain control over the country’s second biggest city.

Aleppo suffered extensive damage, a stark illustration of the Assad regime’s willingness to unleash wholesale destruction on the country to survive. Russian airstrikes and fighting between Assad ...

SDF, Syrian branch of PKK terror group, currently controls one-third of Syria's territory, including most of country's oil, ...

Syria’s interim government says it has reached a landmark agreement with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to ...

By Roberto Cetera Syria must be reunited and the international community must contribute to peace efforts, says Bishop Hanna ...

The reported fighting in the capital, Damascus, and the second city of Aleppo marked the first such ... and inclusive nation representative of the country's myriad religious and ethnic groups.

As the country faces fresh bloodshed, Bishop Hanna Jallouf, Apostolic Vicar of Aleppo, warned against division and urges ...

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Perhaps less well-known is a discovery in a Middle Eastern country that ... located in the north of present-day Syria, 25km from Aleppo. Several circular stone towers were unearthed during ...

Clashes in the coastal region loyal to Bashar al Assad have seen Syria's new government, which has promised to unite the country, send reinforcements after some of its forces were ambushed.

Syrian army forces repelled an attack by the terrorist YPG/PKK-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Aleppo city in northern ... including most of the country's oil and gas fields.