A prominent Syrian dissident said Friday he believed the country's war was effectively over, as foreign governments have cut support to rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar Assad. Louay Hussein said Russian-backed diplomacy had "launched a new path" towards ending the conflict,...

President Bashar Assad rejected the creation of safe zones for refugees and displaced people in Syria, an idea supported by U.S. President Donald Trump, according to a transcript from an interview with Yahoo News released Friday. He signaled he would welcome cooperation with Washington in...

At a training course in northern Iraq, people displaced by the wars in Mosul and neighboring Syria are learning how to code. Some are already being sought by global companies even though they live in sprawling, dusty camps near Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish region, not far from Islamic...

(New York Times)- A northern Syrian city that is one of the Islamic State’s last enclaves in the country is under assault by military forces bearing down from all sides. The complication is that the advancing forces — the Syrian Army and pro-government militias backed by Russia, and...