Kurdish-led forces in Syria put down riots by Islamic State militants in a prison in the country's northeast Monday, hours after the extremists knocked down doors and dug holes in walls between cells, a Syrian Kurdish spokesman said. Kino Gabriel, a spokesman for the Kurdish-led Syrian...

Prisoners at a Syrian jail run by Kurdish forces holding suspected ISIS (Daesh) members rioted and some escaped on Sunday, said Kurdish sources and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. A senior member of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) running Ghouiran prison in the...

For a brief moment, it looked as if there really was a new sheriff in town. A little more than two months into Donald Trump's presidency, Syria's dictator, Bashar al-Assad, unleashed one of his trademark chemical attacks on the town of Khan Sheikhoun in northwestern Syria. Scores of civilians...

Angela Merkel's long-struggling conservatives have rebounded in the polls thanks to the government's handling of the coronavirus crisis and widespread faith in the outgoing German chancellor's ability to manage the upheaval. Shaking off years of record-low popularity, Merkel's centre-right...