Syrian regime forces seized a dozen villages and small towns Sunday as they pressed an offensive in the country's northwest against the last major rebel bastion, a war monitor said. Backed by Russian air strikes, government forces have kept up the assault on the Idlib region and areas...

A car bomb exploded Sunday in the Syrian town of Tel Abyad, near the Turkish border, killing four people, witnesses said Sunday. The Arab town, from which Turkish-backed forces last October pushed out the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, has seen a spate of car blasts that has killed dozens of...

The old airline tags on the five suitcases by the front door hint at a family holiday. But Muzna is not packing for a fortnight away; she is fleeing Syrian and Russian fighter jets. Bombs exploding in nearby Idlib city have convinced the 32-year-old mother of two that she needs to move...

The government in war-devastated Syria decided Sunday that all property and car sales must be conducted through banks, in an apparent bid to revive the banking sector and fight tax evasion. Under the directive, which came into immediate effect, buyers and sellers must use bank accounts for...