The United States military says ISIL (ISIS) is trying “to reconstitute” as the number of its attacks in Syria and Iraq is on track to double that of the previous year. The armed group has already claimed 153 attacks in both countries in the first six months of 2024, US Central Command...

Three Syrian children were killed in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, according to Lebanese media. The fatalities occured when a drone hit a farmland in the town of Am Toot, the state-run National News Agency reported. Another drone strike targeting a water reservoir was...

For more than 10 years, Abu Mohammad has been living in a tent with his family in northern Syria, displaced by the long-running civil war. Unable to earn enough to support them, he, like hundreds of others, has decided to travel via Turkey to Niger to work as a mercenary. Abu Mohammad (not...

Prominent Syrian pro-regime businessman Baraa Katerji was killed in an Israeli strike near the Lebanese-Syrian border on Monday, three security sources told Reuters. There was no immediate Israeli comment on the strike. Katerji was part of a small circle of businessmen close to...