A border crossing on a vital highway linking the capitals of Iraq and Syria, seized by Daesh militants in 2014, re-opened on Monday, an AFP reporter said. Iraqi security forces had re-taken the border post near the town of Al-Qaim in late 2017 as part of a massive operation backed by an...

Turkey's air force has downed an unidentified drone on the Syrian border after it breached Turkish air space six times, the defence ministry said on Sunday. "An unmanned aerial vehicle which violated our air space six times (on Saturday)... was downed by two of our F-16s which took off from...

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are kidnapping young men for forceful recruitment in northeastern Syria, the state-run news agency SANA reported on Saturday. Through its checkpoint, the Kurdish-led SDF kidnapped 23 people to make them fight in its ranks, said the report,...

Desperate to escape war and find medical care for their daughter, Jaber Karawan and his wife have spent hundreds of dollars trying to escape northwestern Syria into next-door Turkey. They have tried five times to smuggle themselves and their two children across the border in recent weeks....