In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

The departure of Bashar al-Assad after 24 years in power has left the Syrian state in disarray, with numerous factions each vying for influence and control over territory, while foreign powers ...

What's it like to live under the rule of the extremist group known as the Islamic State, or ISIS? WSJ looks at the situation ...

Israeli fighter jets have launched hundreds of airstrikes, while soldiers have seized a buffer zone and captured military posts in territory formerly under Syrian control. The Syrian Observatory ...

IS militants paraded through Raqqa after the "caliphate" was proclaimed in June 2014 Raqqa, in northern Syria, became the de facto capital of the "caliphate" proclaimed by so-called Islamic State ...

Arab tribes in Raqqa, northern Syria vowed on Monday to reclaim their lands, which have been under the occupation of the terrorist group PKK/YPG since 2017. Representatives of Raqqa’s Arab ...