Thousands of Uyghurs became key fighters against Syria's Assad regime. For the first time, they agreed to be interviewed. NPR ...

DAMASCUS—Syria’s new leaders have to figure out what to do with thousands of foreign fighters in their ranks, whom many in the country fear and suspect were involved in a recent wave of ethnic ...

Atrocities by the Syrian government "far outweigh" crimes by the opposition fighters and Syrian President al-Bashar Assad's regime is "mostly responsible" for the human rights offences in the ...

After the invasion, around 150,000 Kurds were forced to flee. The Syrian rebel groups included extremists and they were ...

Syrian opposition fighters removing a government flag from an official building Saturday in Salamiyah, east of Hama.Ghaith Alsayed/Associated Press The main rebel group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, is an ...

BEIRUT, Jan 24 - Heavy fighting erupted in northwestern Syria on Tuesday between a powerful jihadist organization and more moderate rebel groups, threatening to further weaken the opposition to ...

FILE - This Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009 file photo shows Syrian President Bashar Assad, seen, during a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, unseen, at the presidency in Tehran, Iran.

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GAZIANTEP, Turkey — A Syrian rebel group that once claimed it had abducted a group of U.N. observers in the Golan Heights announced Thursday that it had in fact rescued them from fighting in the area ...