Syria

Syrian rebels have made significant gains in recent weeks as support for Assad shows signs of fraying.

Two Iraqis, one Shiite and one Sunni, say in Syria, they’re fighting a sectarian war triggered when the US toppled Saddam.

Syria’s tribes smuggled fighters into Iraq to fight the US during the Iraq War. Now they’re helping them fight Assad.

Christians are taking arms from the Assad regime as foreign jihadis and local radicals rise amid the chaos of Syria’s civil war.

Syrian forces have driven rebels and residents out of opposition areas of Damascus.

Evidence is mounting that Bashar al-Assad’s in Syria is crumbling, as the dramatic assassination of top Syrian security chiefs in a Damascus bombing shocks the nation.