International donors are gathering in Brussels hoping to drum up $9 billion to help Syrians uprooted by the country's bloody civil war, as European countries warn the money must not prop up President Bashar al-Assad. "The conference should not only be a fundraising exercise. It must be...

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) appealed to the international community Tuesday for $207 million so it can continue providing humanitarian aid to refugees in Syria and across the region as the conflict enters its ninth year. The funds will allow IOM to support more than...

Hundreds of Syrians in the city of Deraa protested on Sunday at the erection of a new statue of President Bashar al-Assad’s late father, nearly eight years after the original was toppled at the start of Syria’s civil war. Demonstrators and witnesses said residents walked through the...

 Armed with assault rifles and with faces wrapped in scarves, the Islamic State fighters visible at the boundary of their last enclave in eastern Syria are among the hardened jihadists who appear ready to fight to the death. Thousands of people - many of them the wives of Islamic...