Kafa Jawish hadn't slept in days, daydreaming of seeing her home in east Aleppo for the first time in four years, but when she arrived she found little more than rubble. The 36-year-old was among hundreds of Syrians returning to east Aleppo in recent days after the army recaptured large...

While the fight to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from Islamic State is going to be difficult, it is "possible" it could be complete before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Monday. Some 100,000 Iraqi government troops, Kurdish security...

Suspected Russian airstrikes have killed at least 46 people in opposition-held parts of Syria, activists said, as the U.N. Security Council prepares to vote Monday on a resolution demanding a temporary cease-fire in Aleppo. Syria's government is waging a fierce offensive to recapture all of...

  The Syrian Network for Human Rights, in new report documenting the arbitrary arrests in Syria in November, said 394 people, including 11 children, and 19 women, were detained last month by the regime forces. The arrests made in Damascus focused on the age group 18-42 for the purpose...