Bashar Assad instead became a doctor in the 1980s and was studying in London to be an ophthalmologist in the early 1990s. But ...

There are Turkish-backed rebels and Sunni Muslim jihadists in the north, Kurds ruling over much of Syria’s east, and ...

Follow NBC News' live coverage as Syria celebrates toppling Bashar al-Assad's regime. Russia, Iran and the U.S. react and ...

The Sykes-Picot Agreement, which divided the Middle East between the British and French, has led to an uneasy rumbling in the ...

Insurgents gained control after only a day of fighting, leaving President Bashar al-Assad's 24-year rule dangling by a thread ...

The Syrian Civil War is a long-running tragedy. Since 2011, more than 500,000 Syrians have died, including more than 200,000 ...

Insurgents gained control after only a day of fighting, leaving President Bashar al-Assad's 24-year rule dangling by a thread ...

A coalition of Syrian rebels say they have toppled the government of President Bashar al-Assad and captured the Syrian ...

The rebel groups and foreign powers contending to shape the country’s future.

Syrian rebel groups fighting to depose President Bashar al-Assad pushed farther south today toward the major city of Homs.

Syrian opposition activists and a rebel commander say opposition fighters have reached the suburbs of the capital, Damascus, ...

CNN mapped how rebel groups captured several key cities, cutting off pro-regime forces and successfully toppling Assad’s ...