Syria

The main commander of the fighters who toppled Bashar al-Assad said that he would dissolve the security forces of the former regime, close its prisons, and hunt down anyone involved…

Bashar al-Assad and his family have arrived in Moscow and been granted asylum “out of humanitarian considerations”, Russian news agencies are quoting a Kremlin source as saying. Russian state TV…

The U.N. secretary-general called for calm and avoiding violence, in the aftermath of the sudden and stunning fall of Syria’s Assad regime to rebel forces. “After 14 years of brutal…

Israel’s prime minister has announced its military has temporarily seized control of a demilitarized buffer zone in the Golan Heights, saying the 1974 disengagement agreement with Syria had “collapsed” with…

Iranian-backed militias entered Syria overnight from Iraq and were heading to northern Syria to beef up beleaguered Syrian army forces battling insurgents, according to two Syrian army sources. Dozens of…

At least 14 people were killed late on Sunday in multiple Israeli strikes targeting the vicinity of Masyaf, a city in Syria’s Hama province, Syria’s state news agency reported on…

Four historic souks in northern Syria’s Aleppo, heavily damaged during some of the most intense fighting of the 13-year civil war, reopened this week following their restoration. Four souks in…

Türkiye’s military conducted airstrikes in northern Iraq and “neutralized” 17 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the defense ministry said Monday. Turkey, which typically uses the term neutralized…

The US military carried out retaliatory air strikes on Monday in Iraq after a one-way drone attack earlier in the day by Iran-aligned militants that left one US service member…

Turkish air strikes killed eight civilians in Syria’s Kurdish-held northeast, a war monitor and local media said, as Ankara launched operations in Iraq and Syria following deadly attacks on its…