BEIRUT (Reuters) - With Islamic State near defeat in Syria, Damascus is setting its sights on territory held by Kurdish-led forces including eastern oil fields, risking a new confrontation that could draw the United States in more deeply and complicate Russian diplomacy. President...

Syrian regime shelling killed four schoolchildren and a man on Tuesday in the rebel-held besieged town of Jisreen east of the capital Damascus, a Britain-based monitor said, AFP reported. "A shell fired by regime troops hit the entrance of a school in Jisreen just as children were...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Confidential documents issued by the Syrian political intelligence before the Syrian Uprising in 2011 showed nominal lists of Syrian Kurds who joined the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in its armed conflict with Turkey. The documents which issued by...

An ongoing regime siege on the Eastern Ghouta region of Syrian capital Damascus has pushed the local population to the verge of famine, including eight-year-old Rahaf Havva, who weighs only 10 kilograms. A main opposition stronghold on the outskirts of Damascus, Eastern Ghouta has...