The Daesh group has maintained its capabilities in Syria despite the death of its chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, an independent U.S. government watchdog said in a report on Tuesday. An inspector general from the Department of Defense also said that a possible departure of American troops from...

Syrian regime forces Wednesday pressed on with their offensive in the northwest that has displaced half a million people, despite heightened tensions with Turkey. Intensive aerial bombardment and ground fighting in the jihadist-dominated Idlib region since December have killed almost 300...

She treated thousands of people in an underground hospital in a besieged rebel enclave in Syria. Now Amani Ballour, the doctor at the centre of the Oscar-nominated documentary "The Cave", is stepping out into the limelight. But the 32-year-old paediatrician, who is still haunted by the...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Tuesday for an end to fighting between Turkey and Syria in Syria's opposition-held province of Idlib on Tuesday. Guterres told reporters it was an "extremely worrying" escalation in the conflict that the Turkish army and the Syrian army were now...