Nearly eight years into the Syrian war, Selim still refuses to perform his military service, just like many fellow Druze from Swaida province rejecting the regime’s conscription call. “I don’t want to get involved in the Syrian bloodbath,” said the 27-year-old, who gave a pseudonym for...

The United States has moved to disrupt an Iranian-Russian network that it said had sent millions of barrels of oil to Syria as well as hundreds of millions of dollars to indirectly fund Hamas and Hezbollah. The complicated arrangement, described by the U.S. Treasury in a statement Tuesday,...

A Helsinki court Wednesday found a Finnish-Syrian man who won global media fame for distributing toys to orphans in Syria guilty of money laundering and fraud. Rami Adham, dubbed the "Toy Smuggler" for his campaign to collect money for orphans in the war-ravaged town of Aleppo, was...

The U.S. is placing observation posts along the Turkish border in northern Syria, Defense Chief James Mattis said Wednesday. Turkey has "legitimate" concerns about terror threats in Syria and the U.S. does not dismiss any of its concerns, he told reporters at the Pentagon. The...