The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia said on Thursday it had freed 24 of its fighters from Islamic State militants in the jihadists’ last enclave near the Iraqi border. The SDF provided no details about how its fighters were recovered, and it was not immediately clear if...

Some want to fight till the end and others want to flee: a split is emerging among jihadists as starvation grips their imploding "caliphate" in eastern Syria. Thousands of men, women and children, including hundreds of jihadists, are believed to be trapped in the Islamic State group's last...

Syria's regime army on Wednesday displayed a huge cache of what it said were powerful explosives left behind by rebels in Daraa province, the birthplace of the uprising that sparked the country's civil war. During a government-organised trip for journalists to the area, an AFP correspondent...

US-backed forces in eastern Syria scrambled Wednesday to extract more families from the last dreg of the "caliphate" before delivering a final blow to holdout jihadists. Several thousand people -- fighters and their relatives -- are believed to be holed up in the last pocket of territory...