Two feet deep, below a plot of farmland outside the Syrian city of Raqa, lies a large and deadly legacy of the Islamic State group: a mass grave holding an estimated 3,500 people. First responders learned of the burial site in the al-Fukheikha agricultural suburb last month, more than a...

 Syria accused the U.S. of sabotaging improved ties with Arab nations that could be key to rebuilding the war-shattered country. The U.S. has pressured allies to block Syria’s reinstatement into the Arab League, President Bashar al-Assad’s media adviser, Buthaina Shaaban, said in...

U.S.-backed Syrian forces fighting the Islamic State group in Syria handed over more than 150 Iraqi members of the group to Iraq, the first batch of several to come, an Iraqi security official said Thursday. The official said the IS militants were handed over to the Iraqi side late...

 Remaining civilians are expected to be evacuated from Islamic State’s final enclave in eastern Syria on Thursday, U.S.-backed forces said, clearing the way for them to wipe out the last vestige of jihadist rule that once straddled Syria and Iraq. Iraqi sources said the Syrian...