Syria on Monday allowed factory owners to import fuel for three months, state media said, in a bid to lessen a combustibles crisis gripping the war-torn country. The government has traditionally been the sole importer of oil and its derivatives, but has been facing a flurry of international...

The chiefs of the US and Russian militaries met in Austria on Monday to discuss the situation in Syria, where a residual US military force will remain following the territorial defeat of the Islamic State group. General Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met with...

Kurdish-led forces supported by air strikes from an international coalition evacuated civilians held as "human shields" Monday after smashing their way into the jihadists' last scrap of territory in eastern Syria. The Syrian Democratic Forces and its allies from the US-led coalition...

Saudi Arabia said on Monday it was too early to restore diplomatic ties with Syria or reinstate Damascus to the Arab League without progress on a political process to end the eight-year-old war. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel Jubeir also said Riyadh, which backed rebels fighting...