The demise of the jihadist empire that spirited away his teenage son could have been reason to rejoice but, for Abdelsalam Mohammed, with the fall of Baghouz came a crushing disappointment. The eastern Syrian hamlet was the Islamic State group's last bastion but for the relatives of many...

The UN Security Council on Wednesday roundly rejected Washington’s decision to recognize Israel's sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. Syria called for an emergency meeting of the council following U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision Monday to unilaterally recognize...

An Israeli missile attack late Wednesday targeted Aleppo, Syria's largest city, according to the Syrian regime-run SANA news agency. “At nearly 11.00 p.m. [2100GMT] on Wednesday, March 23, 2019, army air defenses intercepted Israeli air aggression," SANA early Thursday quoted a anonymous...

(The Syrian regime army on Wednesday intercepted several missiles that were fired by Israeli jets during raids on an industrial zone in the northern city of Aleppo with damage to materials only, state television said. “The Israeli aggression targeted some positions in Sheikh Najar...