Paris does not want them — the wives of 'Islamic State' fighters and their children languishing in Syrian jails. But refusing to allow them to return to France will ultimately backfire, says DW's Luisa von Richthofen. French authorities are loathed to repatriate French women who left...

Syria's Kurds have handed back 12 children of alleged Islamic State members to their mothers from Iraq's Yazidi minority, a Kurdish official said Friday. "The children, aged two to five, were all born to Yazidi mothers and fathered by IS members. They were handed over to their mothers"...

Explosions rocked local oil refineries near the towns of al-Bab and Jarablus sparking large fires. A source in the Turkish military, which controls swaths of northwest Syria where Turkish troops have a presence, said missile attacks had caused the blasts, which also wounded 11 people....

 Zaman al-Wasl has learned that the Russian forces are preparing to set up a permanent military base near the historic city of Palmyra in the middle of the Syrian desert. The new bastion will be equipped in Mont al-Mazar, or Jabal al-Mazar, about 13 kilometers north of Palmyra,...

As Syria marks nearly 10 years since the beginning of its bloody conflict, a new report shows the widespread and devastating impact a decade of fighting has had on health care facilities, health workers and on civilians. The report, published on Wednesday by the International Rescue...

Livestock production is vital in the Syrian Arab Republic to sustain food availability. Livestock breeders – the vast majority of whom maintain a small number of animals – are constantly seeking ways to increase and protect their assets, increase milk and meat production, and generate a good...

A continuing campaign to forcibly conscript people into the ranks of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has seen 61 teachers in northeast Syria detained and 550 arbitrarily dismissed from their jobs since the start of the year, a report by the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) says....

Syrian air defenses were activated in the capital Damascus and its southern suburbs Sunday night to repel an Israeli missile attack, state media reported. There was no word on casualties. State TV quoted an unnamed military official as saying that most of the Israeli missiles were shot...

A Russian Mi-35 helicopter made an emergency landing due to technical problems during a flight over Syria’s northern Hasaka province, state agencies quoted Russia’s Defense Ministry as saying on Sunday. “The crew was quickly evacuated to the airfield. There is no threat to lives of the...

A gas pipeline was attacked in eastern Syria Saturday causing fire but no casualties, state media reported. SANA said the attack occurred in the area known as Abu Khashab in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour that borders Iraq. No one claimed responsibility for the attack but...

Bangladesh is under "no obligation" to shelter 81 Rohingya Muslim refugees adrift for almost two weeks on the Andaman Sea and being assisted by neighbouring India, said Bangladesh foreign minister A.K. Abdul Momen. India's coast guard found the survivors and eight dead crammed on a fishing...

An explosion struck an Israeli-owned cargo ship sailing out of the Middle East on Friday, an unexplained blast renewing concerns about ship security in the region amid escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran. The crew and vessel were safe, according to the United Kingdom Maritime...

Iran on Friday condemned the US military strike in eastern Syria bordering Iraq, terming it "illegal aggression".  Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh, in a statement, said the attack constituted a "violation of human rights and international law". The strike, ordered by...

The United States launched airstrikes in Syria on Thursday, targeting facilities near the Iraqi border used by Iranian-backed militia groups. President Joe Biden said Friday that Iran should view his decision to authorise US airstrikes in Syria as a warning that it can expect...

In November 2016, the month Donald Trump was elected US president, a Saudi delegation of top aides to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visited New York, where they met members of the Trump transition team. Upon their return home, the delegation delivered a slide presentation of their...

The Azerbaijani president said on Friday that he hopes Armenia will abide by Nov. 10 cease-fire deal to prevent further escalation. Attending a virtual news conference, Ilham Aliyev said Armenia's political crisis resulted from its occupying policies. Relations between the former Soviet...

Hamas has warned Israel against meddling in Palestinian national elections, saying it may lead to their postponement.  In a statement following a meeting chaired by its leader, Ismail Haniyeh, the resistance movement condemned the occupation’s “blatant interference” in the electoral...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s interior minister on Thursday said he was in Lebanon looking to repatriate more Albanians related to other nationals who had joined Islamic extremist groups in Syria and Iraq. Bledi Cuci, in Beirut in the last two days, said he met there with Maj. Gen....

A U.S. airstrike in Syria targeted facilities belonging to a powerful Iranian-backed Iraqi armed group, killing one of their militiamen and wounding a number of others, an Iraqi militia official said Friday. The official told The Associated Press that the strikes against the Kataeb...

Citing “disturbing new food security data” published by the World Food Programme (WFP), Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock stated that some 60 per cent of the population “do not have regular access to enough safe and nutritious food”.   “The increase may...