Some want to fight till the end and others want to flee: a split is emerging among jihadists as starvation grips their imploding "caliphate" in eastern Syria. Thousands of men, women and children, including hundreds of jihadists, are believed to be trapped in the Islamic State group's last...

Syria's regime army on Wednesday displayed a huge cache of what it said were powerful explosives left behind by rebels in Daraa province, the birthplace of the uprising that sparked the country's civil war. During a government-organised trip for journalists to the area, an AFP correspondent...

US-backed forces in eastern Syria scrambled Wednesday to extract more families from the last dreg of the "caliphate" before delivering a final blow to holdout jihadists. Several thousand people -- fighters and their relatives -- are believed to be holed up in the last pocket of territory...

The motley crew of foreign jihadist wives held at the Al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria are united by at least one thing: the fear of being separated from their children. Penned in a special section of the camp and huddled in rudimentary tents, most of them are tight-lipped about the lives...