Syrian air defenses confronted Israeli missiles targeting an area near the capital, Damascus, downing some of them, Syria's state news agency reported Monday. SANA cited a military source as saying the missiles came from the skies over eastern Lebanon, and targeted outposts in the vicinity...

Turkish humanitarian organization IHH has given winter aid to 1,200 Syrian families who live in refugee camps, an official said on Friday. Selim Tosun, the organization's media manager for Syria, told Anadolu Agency that the IHH provided supplies to the displaced people affected by the...

Clashes broke out Saturday between Kurdish forces and Islamic State group fighters near a Syrian prison where dozens of jihadists are still holed up, a war monitor said. An IS assault on the sprawling Ghwayran prison complex near the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh on January 20 sparked...

U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces were celebrating in northeastern Syria on Wednesday night after the force said it had seized control of the Gweiran Prison from Islamic State militants. But on Thursday, it emerged fighting was again ongoing and the U.S-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)...

The Jordanian military said Thursday that troops have killed 27 suspected smugglers attempting to enter the country from neighboring Syria. The report on the army's website said that it had thwarted several suspected attempts to smuggle drugs into Jordan from Syria, and that large...

Fears are rising for lots of of children in a Syrian prison seized by Islamic State inmates, after six days of clashes with Kurdish-led fighters searching for to regain management of the power, the United Nations children’s company mentioned on Tuesday. About 850 children are caught in the...

 Heavy snow and freezing rain have seriously affected about 250,000 displaced Syrians living in camps in the last major opposition stronghold in northwestern Syria, with tents collapsing and children having to walk in the snow in sandals, a senior U.N. humanitarian official said Monday....

Thousands of Syrians have been displaced as a result of ongoing fighting between Islamic State fighters and U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters, following a raid on a prison in Hassakeh where militants were being held. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said about 45,000 people have reportedly...

Kurdish-led forces said they raided part of a prison seized by Islamic State fighters in northeastern Syria and forced at least 300 of the militants to surrender on Monday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), spearheaded by the Kurdish YPG militia, said militants were still holed up in other...

BEIRUT (AP) — U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters deployed inside a prison in northeast Syria on Monday, closing in on the facility’s last wing controlled by militants for days, the force and a war monitor said. The raid follows the surrender of hundreds of Islamic State fighters and aims to end...

Clashes between U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters and militants continued for a fourth day Sunday near a prison in northeastern Syria that houses thousands of members of the Islamic State group, the Kurdish force said. The standoff follows a bold assault by the extremists that breached the...

At least 120 people have been killed in Syria including seven civilians as battles between US-backed Kurdish forces and Islamic State group fighters raged for a fourth day, a war monitor said Sunday. Fighting began late Thursday with an assault by more than 100 IS insurgents on the...

Fighting raged for a third day on Saturday between ISIL (ISIS) and Kurdish forces in Syria after attackers stormed a prison housing members of the armed group in violence that has killed more than 70 people so far. The assault on the Ghwayran prison in the northern city of Hasakeh is one of...

Hundreds of Syrians fled Hassakeh on Friday as violence escalated between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Islamic State militants. More than 100 IS fighters, using heavy machine guns and vehicles rigged with explosives, attacked a prison in the city on Thursday night. Gweiran...

Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria on Friday hunted down Islamic State group fighters after an IS attack on a Kurdish-run prison housing fellow jihadists, a war monitor and Kurdish forces said. The rare attack on Ghwayran prison in Hassakeh province on Thursday saw the jihadists...

Islamic State militants attacked a prison in al-Hasaka in an attempt to free prisoners belonging to the group who had mutinied, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said in a statement on Thursday. Islamic State "sleeper cells ... infiltrated from the surrounding neighbourhoods and...

Five Roman artefacts from the ancient city of Palmyra, a site damaged during Syria's decade-long conflict, were returned to Damascus on Thursday by a private Lebanese museum where they had been on display since 2018. The limestone statues and carved funerary stones dating from the Roman...

A rocket attack on a northern Syrian town controlled by Turkey-backed opposition fighters killed six civilians and wounded over a dozen people on Thursday, Syrian rescuers and a war monitor said. Both blamed U.S-backed Syrian Kurdish forces for the attack.  The town of Afrin has been...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Thursday discussed developments in Syria with Russia's special envoy, Saudi state TV reported. The Russian official, Alexander Lavrentiev, is visiting the kingdom, the channel said. Russia and Iran are providing critical military and political...

The crowded hospital in Darkush in Syria's rebel-held northwest treats around 30,000 patients every month, for free -- but now foreign aid cuts are threatening its future. Already dwindling funds have caused dire shortages of medicine and equipment in this and other clinics in the Idlib...