A U.S. military convoy was seen driving and stopping near the Gweiran Prison in Hassakeh in northeastern Syria on Tuesday. A U.S. Chinook helicopter was also seen landing near the prison by the time the convoy was stopping. The prison was the focus of a furious battle recently between...

Children held in a prison in northeast Syria that witnessed 10 days of fighting between U.S.-backed fighters and Islamic State group militants are living in “incredibly precarious” conditions and they should not have been there in the first place, the U.N. children’s agency said Sunday....

Fears are rising about what would happen to Europe’s energy supply if Russia were to invade Ukraine and then shut off natural gas exports in retaliation for U.S. and European sanctions. The tensions show the risk of Europe’s reliance on Russia for energy, which supplies about a third of...

Weeks after the long, furious battle with militants from the Islamic State group over a prison in northwestern Syria, the mangled wreckage of a car used by suicide bombers still sat outside its perimeter. Cranes put in place new cement blast walls to close off the entrance. Gaping holes...