The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) paused military operations against Islamic State (IS) militants holed up in the group’s final enclave in eastern Syria, expecting more civilians to be evacuated from the area on Saturday, an SDF official said. Thousands of people - many of them...

Owners of small trucks staged a demonstration in Zahle Saturday in protest of the increased completion Syrian workers brought to the transport sector, the state-run National News Agency reported.

An official with a U.S.-backed group says a suicide car bomb attacker has blown himself up near a military vehicle in the northern Syrian town of Manbij, wounding eight people, most of them civilians. Sharfan Darwish, of the Kurdish-led Manbij Military Council, said the Saturday afternoon...

The baby son of Shamima Begum, a British-born teenager who left London to join the Islamic State group, has died in Syria, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces has said. Begum, 19, who was stripped of her citizenship for joining IS by the British government despite her wish to return,...

US-backed fighters have been hoping for weeks that the final day has come for the Islamic State group's "caliphate", but its last tiny sliver of land just won't seem to empty. Tens of thousands of dust-covered women, children and men have streamed out of the ragged tent encampment in the...

Foreign women with Islamic State have tried to assault others they deem “infidels” at a camp where they are being held in northeast Syria, trying to impose their views even as the jihadists are facing territorial defeat, Reuters journalists visiting the site have found. “They yell at us...

President Michel Aoun Friday reiterated his call for assistance to be provided to Syrian refugees after they return to their country, during talks with the U.N. high commissioner for refugees.

 U.S-backed fighters will resume their assault on Islamic State’s last, small patch of ground in eastern Syria if no more civilians come out by Saturday afternoon, one of their spokesmen said on Friday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have slowed their offensive on the jihadist...

Defeated but unrepentant, some jihadists limping out of their besieged final bastion in eastern Syria still praise the Islamic State and promise bloody vengeance against its enemies. The skeletal and dishevelled figures shuffling out of the smouldering ashes of the "caliphate" may look like...

More than 62,000 people uprooted by fighting around Islamic State’s last pocket in Syria have flooded al-Hol displacement camp in Syria, with 5,200 arriving between March 5-7 and thousands more expected, the United Nations said on Friday. “Al-Hol camp has significantly surpassed its...

An all-women run education center at a refugee camp in Syria has become "a source of hope" for women and young girls, its manager said. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Fadi Ibrahim, the manager of the Ruvayda education center, said: “Our aim is to support women and young girls to hold on to...

Holdout Islamic State group fighters hunkered down in a riverside camp in eastern Syria Friday as US-backed forces pressed to expel them from the last scrap of their dying "caliphate". Thousands of men, women and children have poured out of the pocket of territory in the village of Baghouz...

Syrian refugees who fled to Jordan after being tortured and witnessing massacres have submitted dossiers of evidence to the international criminal court in a novel attempt to prosecute President Bashar al-Assad. Although Syria is not a signatory to the court, based in The Hague, lawyers...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Five Syrians, including three refugee women, were held on Wednesday by the Lebanese security at Rafic Hariri airport, a Lebanese Human Rights monitoring said. The Beirut-based Access Center for Human Rights said the Turkish airlines had refused to let the Syrian...

A convoy carrying aid for 50,000 people reached the northern Syrian city of Manbij Thursday, in the first such delivery from regime-held territory, the United Nations said. The U.N. and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent sent 37 trucks loaded with "862 metric tons of food, non-food items,...

Syria’s foreign ministry said on Thursday it “categorically rejects” the finding of the global chemical weapons agency that a “toxic chemical” was used in an attack last April on a Syrian rebel-held town. Inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said...

 Lawyers representing Syrian refugees in Jordan have asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate Syria for alleged crimes against humanity in what they hope will be a breakthrough after previous initiatives have failed. The case is being brought on behalf of 28...

Thousands of people could still be left inside Islamic State’s last enclave in eastern Syria, the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said, as the waves of evacuations from the tiny area continued on Thursday. The SDF has said it wants to ensure all civilians have been evacuated...

During a lull in regime bombardment, Abu Abdu al-Sarmani drove a pick-up hurtling into his wrecked hometown in Syria's Idlib province to grab his family's belongings a day after they fled. The northwestern town of Khan Sheikhun is supposed to be protected by an internationally brokered...

Torched tents, a rain of bullets, the thunderous whoosh of warplanes muffling the call to prayer: survivors say life inside the Islamic State group's dying "caliphate" was a bleak catalogue of despair. The crackle and thud of gunfire and shelling filled the air as plumes of thick black...