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Last month's deadly church bombing outside Syria's capital is raising fears among the country's minority Christians.
Leaders and managers must understand the complexity of armed conflicts to make responsible and ethical choices ...
DAMASCUS, June 12 (Reuters) - Middle East leaders and their Western allies have been warning that Islamic State could exploit the fall of the Assad regime to stage a comeback in Syria and neighbouring ...
The United States government has revoked its designation of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham as a foreign terrorist organization, seven ...
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham will no longer be designated as a terrorist group, months after the group swept to power in Syria.
Iraq has officially reopened the Qaim border crossing with Syria for trade and passenger traffic, a spokesman for the Iraqi border authority said on Saturday, marking a key step in efforts to ...
The Iraq-Syria border is 600 km. long, and most of it consists of desert that is hard to secure and police. The main crossing for extremists who have flooded into Iraq in the past has been from ...
The current interim president of Syria, Ahmad al-Sharaa, was previously known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani and fought as an al-Qaida militant in Iraq after the U.S. invasion of 2003, and later fought ...
The Euphrates River cuts through Syria into Iraq, with U.S. troops and American-backed Kurdish-led fighters on the east bank and Iran-backed fighters and Syrian government forces to the west.
In both Iraq and Syria, Islamic State fighters began to disperse in 2017, long before Kurdish-led fighters retook the group’s last morsel of territory in the eastern Syrian village of Baghouz, ...
How the ISIS offensive in Iraq will impact Syria's war. — -- As Twitter photos from jihadi fighters showed fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) driving tanks through a ...
The aftermath of the U.S. military strikes targeting sites in Syria and Iraq began coming into focus on Saturday morning as a Britain-based Syria monitoring group said that at least 18 members of ...