The Israeli army on Thursday said it has returned two shepherds who crossed into Israeli territory back to Syria, a development that an Israeli official said was part of an impending prisoner swap Syria had reported the previous day. Syria’s official news agency SANA said Wednesday...

The deaths stacked up: a policeman shot dead with a pistol equipped with a silencer, a local official gunned down, his son wounded, an Iraqi man beheaded. In total, 20 men and women were killed last month in the sprawling camp in northeastern Syria housing families of the Islamic State group....

With the help of Russian mediation, Damascus is securing the release of two Syrians held in Israel in exchange for releasing an Israeli woman that entered Syria by mistake, Syria’s official news agency reported Wednesday. The report did not provide details on when the Syrians were...

Turkey’s soldiers are the only ones preventing the possible slaughter of millions of Syrians at the hands of the Bashar al-Assad regime’s forces, The New York Times said Tuesday.  “As an end to the decade-long Syrian civil war still confounds the world, Turkey has become the only...