Syrian rebels

Inside Assad’s Ransacked Palace: Anxiety Pills, Graffiti and Shredded Posters

A Wall Street Journal reporter in Damascus tours the dictator’s former home, office and underground bunker

How a Syrian Rebel Went From an American Jail to Seizing Aleppo

Once affiliated with Islamic State and al Qaeda, Jawlani professes religious tolerance. Many have doubts.

Bashar al-Assad, an Ophthalmologist Who Became a Dictator, Is the Last of a Despotic Dynasty

Once a self-styled modernizer, Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad bought time with a harsh crackdown, but his government eventually succumbed to its many enemies

What to Know About the Civil War in Syria

Rapid advances by rebel fighters against government forces are taking a more than decade-old conflict into a new phase

Syrian Rebel Offensive Bolsters Turkey’s Geopolitical Influence

A NATO ally confronts the risks of a widening Mideast conflict