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The Syrian civil war has reignited after four years of docility, with five main players deciding the course of events.
Syria’s long civil war has reclaimed global attention after insurgents seized most of its largest city and dozens of nearby towns and villages.
Syrian opposition activists say insurgents have captured four new towns, bringing them closer to the central city of Hama.
Years of war and a powerful earthquake had led to crushing poverty, displacement and breakdowns in services. But over the ...
Iran and Russia, both stretched by conflicts of their own, have experienced setbacks in Syria after a rebel offensive in the ...
According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), an independent organisation that has documented human rights ...
Opposition activists say Syrian insurgents have captured four new towns, bringing them closer to the central city of Hama.
Turkey-backed Sunni forces in the north, US-supported Kurdish forces in the northeast, and the Shiite-backed Assad government ...
Syrian rebels launched a lightning assault against government forces in the country’s northwest, reshaping the front lines of ...