Syria's government condemned what it called the occupation of its land and the opposition demanded justice and peace Wednesday at the opening of a U.N.-backed panel designed to bring about political reconciliation ending years of civil war. The first meeting of Syria's so-called...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar al-Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control. The U.S. decision to keep forces in northeastern Syria to...

Russia has informed Turkey that Syrian Kurdish YPG fighters have withdrawn from a strip of land near the Syrian-Turkish border within a deadline set by Ankara and Moscow, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday. Under an accord clinched by Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin a...

Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's "caliphate" in Baghouz, Syria. Today, they're crammed together: 5,000 presumed jihadists in an overcrowded Kurdish prison in the country's northeast. AFP...