A key dam in northern Syria has become a flash point in the conflict between Kurdish forces and Turkish-backed armed groups.

Passengers at Damascus airport hugged their families and cried with joy on Tuesday (January 7), as international flights resumed for the first time since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime last ...

“During the operations, ISIS fighters engaged coalition forces on several occasions,” CENTCOM said. Those engagements ...

The U.S. is easing its restrictions on aid to the rebel groups now governing Syria, marking a step toward supporting the Islamist rebels.

DONETSK, January 5. /TASS/. Several groups of Ukrainian servicemen have been ambushed near Velikaya Novoselka in the south of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), a sniper from Russia’s Battlegroup ...

MOSCOW, January 3. /TASS/. The National Bank of Ukraine on Friday lowered the official hryvnia exchange rate to the US dollar to a new record low of 42.03 per $1, the regulator said on its website.

A Syrian former equestrian champion has told how he was jailed and tortured for 21 years after he beat Bashar al Assad's older brother in a competition. Adnan Kassar, once a celebrated figure in ...

Israel, which destroyed large parts of Hezbollah's missile stocks during weeks of operations in southern Lebanon, has said it will not permit weapons to be smuggled to Hezbollah through Syria.

Syria's new rulers began an operation in western Tartous province, home to many from ousted leader Bashar Assad's Alawite sect. The killing of 14 police officers the previous day has irked the ...

ANKARA - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Kurdish militants in Syria will either lay down their weapons or "be buried", amid hostilities between Turkey-backed Syrian ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan at the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Kurdish militants in Syria will either lay down ...