HTS, a Sunni terrorist group with roots in Syria’s jihadist insurgency and former ties to al Qaeda, and Hezbollah, a Shiite terrorist force backed by Iran, represent opposing factions in the ...

Government forces crushed an insurgency launched last week by gunmen loyal to the ex-Assad regime. Ahmad al-Sharaa on Monday reached a pact with U.S.-backed Kurdish-led authorities.

In 1973, Syria tried to reclaim the Golan Heights in a war it waged on Israel with Egypt. It failed, but Israel and Syria agreed to sign an armistice, leading to a demilitarized buffer zone ...

In 1973, Syria tried to reclaim the Golan Heights in a war it waged on Israel with Egypt. It failed, but Israel and Syria agreed to sign an armistice, leading to a demilitarized buffer zone ...

HTS, the most organized of the groups, has since established itself as Syria’s de facto rulers after coordinating with the southern fighters during the lighting-fast offensive.

Syria's HTS 'is a movement that has de-radicalized from the top' A leading expert on Syria, researcher Patrick Haenni analyzes the nature of the new power stemming from the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ...

Syria's new leaders have reportedly given high-ranking military posts to several foreign Islamist fighters. It is raising concern in their home countries, but a leading Middle East expert says it ...

The terrorist designation for HTS is a key obstacle to Syria’s long-term economic viability, but U.S. officials said the Islamist rebels who stunned the world late last year by overthrowing ...

HTS led a lightning insurgency that ousted President Bashar Assad on Dec. 8 and ended his family's decades-long rule. From 2011 until Assad's downfall, Syria's uprising and civil war killed an ...

In 2018, Washington designated the HTS a Foreign Terrorist Organisation and placed a $10 million bounty on the head of its Syrian leader, Ahmed al-Shara’a, whose nom de guerre was Abu Mohammad ...

Syria's new rulers have appointed Murhaf Abu Qasra, a leading figure in the insurgency which toppled Bashar al-Assad, as defence minister in the interim government, an official source said on ...

Syria’s new rulers have appointed a foreign and defence minister, the official Syrian news agency SANA reports, as they seek to build international relations two weeks after Bashar al-Assad was ...