The aim is to head off a return to civil conflict that could complicate efforts to curb radical Islamist groups.

Recent violence in Syria has sparked fears of further instability as leaders call for lifting sanctions to ease economic woes ...

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which controls much of the oil-rich northeast, signed a deal with the ...

Since the fall of former President Bashar al-Assad on Dec. 8, Kurdish forces have been locked in combat with Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army forces. With waning U.S. support, the Kurds felt they ...

Jabhat al-Nusra later crushed and absorbed the Free Syrian Army, the anti-Assad rebel coalition that the State Department and CIA had backed in northern Syria, and it harassed minority Christians and ...

Then it fell to the revolutionary Free Syrian Army, which held it until 2014. Next, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) seized and controlled it until 2016, only to lose it to the Syrian ...

Turkey’s foreign minister said Friday that Ankara is closely monitoring an agreement between the Syrian government and a ...

They know that exclusionary rule will invite internal resistance from constituents such as the Free Syrian Army, composed of a wide variety of rebel factions; the Kurds, who control large parts of ...

“Some Indonesian foreign fighters have trained with Ahrar al Sham, the Free Syrian Army, and Suquor al-Izz brigades in Syria. There is high fluidity of rebel groups in Syria, and these three ...

“None of us were professional fighters, and we didn’t always know what we were doing,” one former Free Syrian Army (FSA) commander in northern Syria around that time told me. “So when we ...