At least 270 journalists have been trapped in Syria’s southwestern Daraa province amid an ongoing regime offensive in the region, the Syrian Journalists Association said Tuesday. An Anadolu Agency freelance reporter is among the trapped journalists, as well as media activists and...

Several thousand Syrians have fled parts of the country's south held by an affiliate of the Daesh (ISIS) group due to fears of a government attack, an activist group said Monday. The pockets in Deraa province's western countryside held by Daesh are not included in a ceasefire deal agreed...

An Iraqi military spokesman says an airstrike has killed 20 Daesh (ISIS) militants outside the northern city of Mosul. In a statement issued on Monday, Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool says the slain militants were hiding inside a tunnel in Badoush area northwest of Mosul. Rasool says...

Israel threatened a "harsh response" on Monday to any attempt by Syrian forces advancing against southern rebel areas to deploy in a Golan Heights frontier zone that was demilitarised under a 44-year-old U.N. monitored truce between the neighbouring foes. Syrian government forces backed...