An effort to reduce growing strains on overcrowded prisons in Syria, some holding thousands of captured Islamic State fighters, is being met with cautious optimism in Washington, even though it involves letting hundreds of the terror group’s adherents walk free. The plan put into motion...

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad moved Wednesday to exempt more low-wage earners from income tax, his office said, as the economy buckles under the weight of US sanctions and nearly a decade of war. The legislative decree, the first such amendment in years, widens the tranche of low-income...

A Syrian girl has been nominated for the 2020 International Children's Peace Prize. The girl, identified only as Enar and also known as "Noor" on social media, played a major role in raising awareness of the suffering of the people of the Ghouta area near Damascus during a years-long siege....

Turkey Tuesday started withdrawing from one of its largest outposts in northwest Syria encircled for the past year by Syrian regime forces, a war monitor and a pro-Ankara rebel commander said. The outpost in Morek is Turkey's largest in the northwest province of Hama, which is now mostly...