An international aid group says 31 deaths were recorded in the final week of March among people making their way out of the last sliver of territory held by the Islamic State group and toward a camp for the displaced. The International Rescue Committee says Monday the highest weekly death...

The Israeli government hopes to settle some 250,000 Israelis in the occupied Syrian Golan heights over the next 30 years, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority (IBA) reported on Monday. The report comes one week after U.S. President Donald Trump signed a presidential proclamation recognizing...

There's a saying in Arabic: Learning while young is like carving in stone. (It rhymes in the original.) The saying has come to the fore as authorities begin efforts to reeducate about 25,000 school-age children being held in Al Hol, the desolate internment camp on the edge of eastern Syria...

One civilian was killed and four others were injured on Monday in artillery attacks by the Syrian regime and Iran-backed militias, according to the White Helmets civil-defense agency. “The regime and Iran-backed militias targeted rural parts of Idlib, including Kafr Zayta and...