ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Syria’s interior ministry announced Wednesday the arrest of several suspects allegedly involved in war crimes and inciting violence across the country’s western coastal regions.

KOAYIAH, Syria — A panicked phone call, then explosions. Abdul Rahman Hamdan recalls how his uncle called him from their family's olive grove early one morning last month. He and his neighbors were rushing out with hunting rifles, to confront Israeli ...

U.S. forces killed at least seven members of the Islamic State group and captured another 18 throughout 11 missions between Dec. 20-29 in Syria.

Syrian authorities did not confirm opening fire, but said they had “contained the situation”. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Rival Syrian and Kurdish producers are scrambling for shrinking wheat harvests as the worst drought in decades follows a devastating war, pushing more than 16 million people toward food insecurity. "The country has not seen such bad climate conditions in ...

Syrian and U.S. troops were returning from a joint patrol on Saturday when a shooter attacked them at the gate of a military base in Palmyra, a former stronghold of the Islamic State group. U.S. Central Command described the attacker, who Syrian forces killed, as a "lone ISIS gunman." Trump wrote on social media that the shooting was an attack on America and Syria alike, vowing revenge.

Syria is potentially “weeks” away from collapse, even though the U.S. recently eased longstanding sanctions on the Middle Eastern nation, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers Tuesday. The current Syrian government under interim leader Ahmed al ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — When a dozen firefighters showed up within minutes to douse a mattress that accidentally caught fire on the roof of his apartment building, Mohamed Bassem Said was gobsmacked. Said, 65, lived most of his life under Assad family rule.

Some are calling the actions of Turkish-backed fighters "war crimes." Hevrin Khalaf, a 35-year-old Kurdish-Syrian politician and the general secretary of the Syria Future Party, which aimed to transition the government should strongman President Bashar al ...

Syria has spent more than a decade portrayed only through war, terror, and destruction — but the reality on the ground is far more complex. Over seven days, we travel from Damascus to ancient ruins like Palmyra,