Iraq started on Thursday to send Syrian soldiers of deposed former leader Bashar al-Assad's army back to their homeland, ...

Assad’s ouster has raised urgent questions about the 2,000 troops who serve as a bulwark against ISIS and Iran.

For much of the past decade, Assad’s regime, bolstered by unwavering support from Iran and Russia, brutally suppressed ...

A Pentagon spokesman said the increase was unrelated to the fall of President Bashar al-Assad to rebel forces in early ...

The country is deeply divided along religious and ethnic lines, which makes continuing violence one likely scenario.

Blinken said he spoke to Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani about the situation in Syria after the Assad regime's ...

The Syrian regime’s collapse came more quickly than the rebels had dreamed — the circumstances were both serendipitous and ...

The church bells still ring in Syria’s ancient Christian enclaves, but their sound carries a bittersweet resonance. Two weeks ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced visit to Iraq Friday to meet with Prime Minister Mohammed Shia ...

"I believe there will be violent fighting, the end of which we do not know," a top Syrian Democratic Council official told Newsweek.

With hostile Turkish-backed groups mobilising against them in Syria's north, and Damascus ruled by a group friendly to Ankara ...

Sham, or HTS, made a lightning assault across Syria. Where did the rebels get the cash, weapons and training that made their ...