The world breathed a collective sigh of relief in March 2019 when Daesh, the extremist group that had brought terror to vast swathes of the region since 2014, was finally defeated in its last territorial holdout of Baghouz, eastern Syria. The battle for Daesh’s final enclave marked the end...

 A 13-year-old Kurdish girl went missing on her way home from a school exam last month, after being approached by a man from an armed group. Her parents immediately feared the worst — that she had been persuaded to join the group and was taken to one of its training camps. The girl,...

 At least three civilians were injured Saturday in a rocket attack by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), on a displaced camp in the countryside of Afrin, north of Aleppo province, one of the strongholds of the Turkish-backed Syrian opposition. Local sources told Zaman al-Wasl...

BEIRUT (AP) — A helicopter accident in northeastern Syria over the weekend left 22 American service members injured, the U.S. military said Tuesday, adding that the cause of the accident was under investigation and that no enemy fire involved. The military statement said the service...