Dareen Khalifa, a senior adviser with the International Crisis Group and an expert on Syrian groups, said the insurgents have signaled for a while that they were ready for an offensive.
BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of Syrianinsurgents pushed on with their advances on government-held areas in the country’s northwest, reaching the outskirts of Syria’s second largest city Aleppo ...
He was walking to work in his hometown of Daraa, the southern Syrian city where the protests ... between Assad’s forces and antigovernment insurgents. The ancient farming town of Daraa had ...