A car bomb blast killed at least four civilians at a camp for displaced Syrians by the border with Jordan Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights activists said. "A car bomb exploded on the outskirts of the Rukban camp on the Jordanian border, killing four displaced people and...

Turkey can no longer insist on a resolution of the conflict in Syria without the involvement of President Bashar Assad, as the situation on the ground has changed dramatically, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek said Friday. "As far as our position on Assad is concerned, we...

Jordan is deploying more forces to face a growing threat to its borders, as ISIS extremists in neighboring Iraq and Syria are being dislodged from some strongholds, the commander of the kingdom's border guards said Thursday. ISIS, which seized large parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014, is under...

 ISIS lost nearly a quarter of its territory in Iraq and Syria last year, according to a report released Thursday by research firm IHS Markit. Between early January 2016 and the end of the year ISIS' self-declared "caliphate" fell from 78,000 to 60,400 square kilometers (47,500 to...