Syrian Kurdish special forces have joined an offensive against Daesh (ISIS) militants in eastern Syria, a commander said, after the militants recovered ground from U.S.-backed forces in a fierce counter attack. Daesh launched the assault against the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic...

Syria's National Museum of Damascus opened its rich trove of antiquities to visitors again on Sunday, seven years after war forced it to close and months after the government recaptured all rebel areas near the capital. Only part of the museum, and its collection drawn from the...

An aunt and three cousins of Syria’s brutal dictator have been refused UK citizenship by the Government. They were told that, as close relatives of President Bashar al-Assad, giving them British passports would undermine the Government’s opposition to his bloody regime. The...

Turkish forces bombarded Kurdish YPG militia positions on the eastern shore of the Euphrates River in northern Syria, state-owned Anadolu news agency said Sunday. The move comes two days after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued what he said was a "final warning" to those who would...