Syria's civil war has taken a dramatic turn, with dictator Bashar Assad once again leaning on Russian support after a shock offensive by Islamist rebels in Aleppo.

DETROW: As I just laid out, it's been such a surprising last few days in the Syrian civil war. It's been going on for more than a decade. Let's look backward, especially to those early years of ...

In Syria, Russia was accused of repeated war crimes. Some of Russia's most intense bombing in Syria came in 2016 during the battle for Aleppo, where a monthlong assault by the Russian/Syrian ...

Why Russia is so involved with the Syrian Civil War. Parasiliti: I tend to find that Russia's interests in Syria are pretty clear and they are as follows: One, they're supporting an ally. Bashar ...

WASHINGTON — Syria's civil war began six years ago as a popular revolt against the brutal regime of President Bashar Assad. Now a domestic uprising that has left an estimated 500,000 dead and ...

CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER. After years of losses, the Syrian Civil War turned heavily in Assad's favor in 2014 with the large-scale intervention of Russia.

Russian flags in front of the ancient ruins of Palmyra, Syria, April 8, 2016 (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service photo via AP). Russia’s intervention in the Syrian civil war was never meant ...

Syria's civil war grew out of Assad's brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 2011. More than a decade later, ... Russia's war in Ukraine has also influenced the region.

The Syrian civil war has reignited after ... a Russian MiG-31 fighter jet carrying a Kinzhal missile takes off from the Khmeimim Air Base in Syria, June 25, 2021. (Russian Defense Ministry ...

As a reporter, I covered the Syrian civil war intimately in its early years. But time went on, and other topics came up. I’ve never forgotten about it, exactly, but it sort of shifted to the side.

The Syrian civil war began in 2011 primarily as a loose coalition of Sunni Arab rebel groups fighting against the Arab ... Russian fears of another world war have increased about 10 points ...

It suffered nearly 3.5 million deaths in World War I, another 8 million dead in the Russian Civil War and then 27 million more in World War II. The founder of the Soviet state, Lenin, was a ...