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An Israeli strike on the Syrian-Lebanese border kills five Syrian soldiers, while an attack on the southern Lebanese border ...

Turkey's push for dialogue with Assad may be a long shot but it signals a desire for reconciliation as Syria's ongoing crisis ...

The Turkish incursion into Syria has buoyed the groups under the banner of the Free Syrian Army, but those fighters are under no illusions that their new allies support their revolution.

Troops flew the Syrian national flag amidst war-damaged buildings in ... an amnesty or safe passage to the rebel-held north. The army has recaptured large swathes of Deraa's surrounding province ...

The Syrian army has made a significant advance in its effort to take rebel-held Eastern Ghouta, reports say. Troops have cut off the region's biggest town, Douma, and isolated another, according ...

The IDF's General Staff Reconnaissance Unit destroyed a Syrian underground missile factory built by Iran, a significant blow ...

Long before the sun was up one morning this week, three carloads of Syrian army officers rolled through the deserted streets of Damascus, stopped at the home of Syria’s dictator, short ...

On that Tuesday morning in late March, Faez was confronted by a group of Syrian army soldiers. They were looking for a man who had been spotted with a handgun. Faez and three others were detained ...

The number of people killed in overnight Israeli strikes in Syria has risen to 18 with dozens more wounded, Syria's health ...

A Syrian soldier was killed Sunday and three others wounded in Israeli strikes on several positions in and around Damascus, Syrian state media said. The Israeli military, meanwhile, said it had ...