Around 2,000 people, mostly Daesh (ISIS) fighters, handed themselves over Tuesday to the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces closing in on their last holdout in eastern Syria, a spokesman said. SDF spokesperson Adnan Afrin said the latest group to leave the shrinking extremist pocket in...

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) appealed to the international community Tuesday for $207 million so it can continue providing humanitarian aid to refugees in Syria and across the region as the conflict enters its ninth year. The funds will allow IOM to support more than...

The Syrian government Tuesday condemned a statement by an influential US senator that the occupied Golan Heights should remain "forever" under the control of Israel. Lindsey Graham, a Washington ally of President Donald Trump and a strong backer of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,...

Kurdish-led forces Tuesday said more people were surrendering from the Islamic State group's last scrap of territory in Syria, after overnight air raids and shelling ravaged jihadist outposts. A ragged tent encampment in the eastern Syrian village of Baghouz is all that remains of a...