AMMAN: Syrian state vehicles, accompanied by Russian military police, entered an area of Deraa city on Thursday to raise the national flag over an area held by rebels for years, witnesses said, ...

AMMAN (Reuters) – The Syrian army and Iran-backed militia forces have escalated attacks against a rebel-held part of the southern city of Deraa, a possible prelude to a large-scale campaign to wrest ...

Appeals for help after Russian-backed offensive prompts mass displacement of civilians Fears are mounting about the safety of more than 270,000 civilians who have fled recent fighting in southern ...

Security forces carry out two attacks, demonstrators say. The authorities blame “armed gangs” and a “one million SMS” sent especially from Israel, pointing the finger at the Muslim Brotherhood.

In early July, President Joe Biden confirmed his intention to withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan by September 2021. Biden cited a February 2020 U.S. “agreement” with the Taliban that he had ...

At least six people have died after security forces fired on protesters outside a mosque in the Syrian city of Deraa, human rights activists say. The Omari mosque has been the focus of anti-government ...

Four years after the start of protests against the rule of Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian civil war has left more than 200,000 people dead, hundreds of thousands wounded, an unknowable number detained ...