Clashes with guards, violent factional quarrels and a new strain of ultra-extremism -- the Islamic State group's territorial "caliphate" may be defeated, but a camp in eastern Syria is emerging as a fresh jihadist powder keg. Dislodged in a final offensive by a Kurdish-led ground force and...

The joint Russia-Syria coordination center on refugee repatriation has said that the US troop command in Syria's At Tanf zone blocked access to refugees of the Rukban camp for monitoring and assessment of the situation, stressing that Washington had refused to take part in a coordination...

Earlier, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford denied reports that close to 1,000 of the estimated 2,000 US troops in Syria would stay in the war-torn country despite President Trump's withdrawal promises. The withdrawal of the US military contingent in Syria will be put on...

Plump fruits, bright slushies, and hair dye -- the colourful market in Al-Hol is an unlikely sight in a Syrian camp overflowing with desperate people displaced as the Islamic State group's "caliphate" collapsed. Clothing stalls stacked with colourful scarves line the side of a muddy road....