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, ...

The reported fighting in the capital, Damascus, and the second city of Aleppo were the first such clashes there since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime.

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

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

The Syrian city of Aleppo was taken by 350 militants while ... while President Bashar Assad stepped down and fled the country. On December 10, Mohammed al-Bashir, who had led the so-called Syrian ...

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

Over 1,300 people have been killed in fierce clashes between government forces and gunmen loyal to the Assad regime, ...

After Syrian opposition forces captured the capital city of Damascus on Dec. 8 and forced the country's president ... and the key strategic city of Aleppo — until a series of major offensives ...

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.