A prominent Syrian businessman with close ties to Bashar Assad has been arrested in Kuwait, his lawyer said Tuesday. Mazen al-Tarazi was arrested late Monday at his offices, his lawyer Badr al-Yacoub told AFP. He said that he did not yet know the reasons behind his client's arrest....

Syria's Kurds have criticised the "threatening language" of the Damascus regime after it pledged to retake northeastern areas they control by reconciliation or by force. The minority have largely stayed out of Syria's war, instead carving out a de-facto autonomous region across a large...

A shroud of black smoke covered the Islamic State group's last Syria redoubt on Monday as US-backed forces battled holdout jihadists after a night of shelling and heavy air strikes. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic forces have been closing in on IS fighters holed up in a small sliver of...

The Syrian government's threat to recover the Kurdish-led region of northern Syria through force unless it submits to state rule shows Damascus is determined to pursue a policy of "oppression and violence", the Kurdish-led administration said. The threat was made by Syria's defense minister...