Syrian regime's army has issued orders to return home for men conscripted for compulsory service in 2010, the year before war broke out, fighters and local media said Saturday. The decision ends the drawn-out deployment of thousands of Syrians who enlisted for the mandatory 18 months of...

Hundreds demonstrated in Syria's northeastern city of Qamishli on Saturday, in response to a call by Kurdish authorities for global protests against Turkey's military presence in the flashpoint Afrin region. Turkish forces and allied Syrian rebels seized the northwest Afrin region from...

Seven years of war and massive displacement have redrawn Syria's demographic map, erecting borders between the country's ethnic, religious, and political communities that will be hard to erase. Displaced Syrians, analysts, and rights defenders have described to AFP a divided country...

Syrian aircraft Friday dropped leaflets on the southern province of Daraa, urging the rebels who control most of it to lay down their weapons or face an offensive. Residents told AFP that several different leaflets were scattered across the province, which has borders with Israel and...