The Isis caliphate is no more. Four years after its fighters captured large swathes of Iraq and Syria and declared its intention to spread jihad around the world, the terror group no longer holds any territory. But as one extremist Islamic state falls, another one endures. Over the past few...

The International Red Cross wants hundreds of children of foreign fighters from the Islamic State group in Syria to be allowed to return to their countries of origin and possibly be reunited with family there, the ICRC president said Tuesday. The children are living without their parents at...

More than 40,000 displaced people in northwestern Syria have seen their camps flooded by heavy rains in the past three days, a United Nations spokesman said Tuesday. Around 14 camps were affected in the northwestern province of Idlib, David Swanson of the UN Office for the Coordination of...

A US-backed force said Tuesday it was chasing Islamic State group jihadists in eastern Syria, as coalition warplanes pound the militants more than a week after their "caliphate" was declared defeated. The Syrian Democratic Forces, supported by warplanes of a US-led coalition, dislodged IS...

Shamima, 19, said in the first interview since the death of her son Jarrah that she was brainwashed and knew little about her religion when she joined ISIS  ISIS bride Shamima Begum has begged for a second chance and admitted she regrets having children in Syria, according to a new...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A woman and her four daughters were arrested by the Syrian Air Force Intelligence in Damascus suburbs over a phone call with former rebel who had been evacuated to northern Idlib province along with 5000 fighters last April, local media outlets reported Tuesday....

An international aid group says 31 deaths were recorded in the final week of March among people making their way out of the last sliver of territory held by the Islamic State group and toward a camp for the displaced. The International Rescue Committee says Monday the highest weekly death...

There's a saying in Arabic: Learning while young is like carving in stone. (It rhymes in the original.) The saying has come to the fore as authorities begin efforts to reeducate about 25,000 school-age children being held in Al Hol, the desolate internment camp on the edge of eastern Syria...

The Syria Humanitarian Fund (SHF) has disbursed US $4.3 million to partners delivering life-saving assistance to people displaced from the last ISIL-held enclave of Baghouz in south-eastern rural Deir-ez-Zour, to Al-Hol camp, Al-Hasakeh governorate. The SHF allocation will allow partners to...

One civilian was killed and four others were injured on Monday in artillery attacks by the Syrian regime and Iran-backed militias, according to the White Helmets civil-defense agency. “The regime and Iran-backed militias targeted rural parts of Idlib, including Kafr Zayta and Al-Lataminah,...

Australia’s prime minister said on Monday he won’t put officials in danger by retrieving three orphaned Australian children of a convicted terrorist who have reportedly been found in a Syrian refugee camp. Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s response to the plight of former Isis group fighter...

How important was territory to the IS, and what does the loss of that territory mean for it? ISIS has been in Iraq since the 2000s. For a long time it held no territory at all. But it was a no less deadly or destructive force then. In many ways, the Caliphate period is an anomaly, an...

A man from Coventry who joined Isis as a teenager is reportedly the first British citizen to have been executed as a spy by the terrorist group. Mohammed Ismail, who left the UK for Syria in 2014 when he was only 18, earned the nickname “Osama bin Bieber” there because of his youthful...

One Turkish soldier was killed and another was wounded in a mortar attack on their position in northwest Syria on Sunday and Turkey’s military launched retaliatory fire, the Turkish Defense Ministry said. It said the attack was carried out by the Kurdish YPG militia in the Afrin region,...

Too poor to even buy pens and notebooks for school, Mehdi left his home in Afghanistan soon after his 17th birthday and headed to Iran, hoping to make his way to Europe and find work. He never made it there. Instead, Mehdi ended up fighting in Syria's civil war, a conflict he had nothing to...

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman said on Sunday that he “absolutely rejects” any measures that impact on Syrian sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Addressing an Arab League summit in Tunis, he also reiterated Saudi Arabia’s position supporting the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West...

Clashes with guards, violent factional quarrels and a new strain of ultra-extremism -- the Islamic State group's territorial "caliphate" may be defeated, but a camp in eastern Syria is emerging as a fresh jihadist powder keg. Dislodged in a final offensive by a Kurdish-led ground force and...

The joint Russia-Syria coordination center on refugee repatriation has said that the US troop command in Syria's At Tanf zone blocked access to refugees of the Rukban camp for monitoring and assessment of the situation, stressing that Washington had refused to take part in a coordination...

Earlier, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford denied reports that close to 1,000 of the estimated 2,000 US troops in Syria would stay in the war-torn country despite President Trump's withdrawal promises. The withdrawal of the US military contingent in Syria will be put on...

Plump fruits, bright slushies, and hair dye -- the colourful market in Al-Hol is an unlikely sight in a Syrian camp overflowing with desperate people displaced as the Islamic State group's "caliphate" collapsed. Clothing stalls stacked with colourful scarves line the side of a muddy road....