The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...

Hamas has named the next three Israeli hostages it plans to release as part of the ceasefire deal. This shows the truce ...

A Cyprus court sentenced a Syrian national to three years in prison after finding him guilty of causing the death by ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

President Trump has chosen Michael Ellis as deputy CIA director, and Joe Kent to oversee counterterrorism intelligence.

Israel says it has begun preparations for the departure of Palestinians from Gaza despite widespread international rejection of President Donald Trump’s plan to empty the war-devastated territory of ...

Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Jordan will take steps toward jointly combating Islamic State in the region and they aim to hold a ...

A prison in Syria holds about 4,500 members of the Islamic State group who have been there for years without trial.

Men of various ages and nationalities sit silently in their cells in a Syrian prison. All are alleged members of the Islamic ...

At least five prisoners who supported Islamic State were killed after attacking guards with knives and trying to break out of a jail in Tajikistan, a law enforcement source said.

Fidan said that he hoped US President Donald Trump would withdraw its support to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.