In the past week, the Pentagon has acknowledged that its footprint in Iraq and Syria is bigger than it has claimed for years ...

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

The number of US troops in Syria has regularly surged higher than the Pentagon has publicly disclosed since at least 2020, ...

President Trump’s dilemma in Syria is to let a terrorist state emerge at the heart of the Middle East on his watch or to ...

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

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

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 new Islamist-led government promises moderation, but officials aren’t committing to such issues as women’s rights or free ...

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

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

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