Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, is in the grip of the country’s civil war. Government attack helicopters and fighter jets circle the city’s skies as rebel factions entrench themselves in Aleppo’s old ...

The 13-year civil war in Syria has roared back into prominence with a surprise rebel offensive on Aleppo, one of Syria’s largest cities and an ancient business hub. The push is among the rebels’ ...

As a two-month-old cease-fire collapses and peace talks stall, the northern city of Aleppo is once again a main battlefield in Syria’s devastating civil war. More than 60 people have been killed in ...

ALEPPO, Syria — In this city’s forsaken eastern districts, residents need flashlights if they venture out after dark, to find their way through the rubble that was never cleared. For years a front ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military campaign in Gaza, experts say, now sits among the deadliest and most destructive in history. In just over two months, the offensive has wreaked more destruction ...

The revelation centers on a text called a "maqāma" - an Arabic literary genre featuring traveling tricksters - written by the poet and historian Ibn al-Wardi in 1348-49 in Aleppo, according to the new ...

After years of stalemate, the conflict in Syria has erupted once again, with forces opposed to the regime of Bashar al-Assad seizing control of territory in northwestern Syria, including much of the ...

Benjamin Isakhan has received funding from the Australian Research Council and the Australian Department of Defence. Lynn Meskell does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any ...

Syria's Christian community has dwindled since the start of the civil war in 2011 — AAREF WATAD At a church in Syria's Aleppo, Christian worshippers attended mass days after their city came under the ...

No One Prayed Over Their Graves. By Khaled Khalifa. Translated by Leri Price. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 404 pages; $30. Faber & Faber; £14.99 Khaled Khalifa, a Syrian writer, lives in Damascus even ...

An anti-government fighter fires into the air in a street in Aleppo on Nov. 30, 2024. Jihadists and their Turkish-backed allies breached Syria's second city of Aleppo on Nov. 29, as they pressed a ...