The number of registered Syrian refugees in Lebanon has dropped to below one million for the first time since 2014, the United Nations told AFP on Tuesday. As of the end of November, the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) counted 997,905 Syrian refugees -- a vast majority of them women and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Itihad Quwat Jabal al Sheikh, key FSA unit operating in Quneitra province, denied regime reports of evacuation deal deporting hundreds of its fighters to northern Idlib province, rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl on Tuesday. Mohamed al-Zamel, commander in Alwyat...

Syrian regime army forces backed by Iranian-backed militias pushed deeper into the last rebel-held enclave near a strategic border area with Israel and Lebanon in a new expansion of Tehran's influence in the war-torn country. The army and the Shia forces advanced east and south of the...

Inside the newly renovated Church of Saint George in the Northern Iraqi town of Teleskof, Hayat Chamoun Daoud led children dressed as Santa Claus singing “Jingle Bells” in Aramaic. Like every other resident of Teleskof, this was Daoud’s first Christmas back home in three years,...