What began as protests against President Assad’s regime in 2011 quickly escalated into a full-scale war between the Syrian government—backed by Russia and Iran—and anti-government rebel ...
Old Roman Scutum Made of Wood and Leather Shield Discovered, May Have Been Dropped by a Soldier in Battle The Roman "scutum" was a tall, semi-cylindrical shield most popular from the fourth century B.
The leader of the Syrian Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), who spearheaded the overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad regime, spoke Saturday about Israel for the first time since taking ...
Qatana has seen Israeli-Syrian conflicts come and go. The town in the Damascus countryside has been an important staging post for Syrian troops in the wars of 1967 and 1973, and today finds itself ...
Israel wasted no time after Bashar al-Assad’s fall to bomb all the Syrian military assets it wanted to keep out of the rebels’ hands – striking nearly 500 targets, destroying the navy ...