US-backed forces battled Islamic State group fighters Saturday as the holdout jihadists clung onto the last dregs of their crumbling "caliphate" in eastern Syria. For weeks, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have battled to crush IS fighters holed up in a small riverside hamlet in...

The U.S. intention to evacuate the rest of its embassy staff from Caracas is "alarming," according to Russian officials. "It is alarming because the news was accompanied by the comment of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the ‘presence of U.S. personnel limits U.S. actions.’ What...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A group of Syrian women activists established a Women's Social Club in the Syrian refugee camps in the Lebanese border town of Arsal, seeking is to handle and solve the women’s problems and obstacles in the camps. The club includes 15 Syrian activists, 2 Syrian...

France said Friday it had brought back five young children from camps in northern Syria, but repeated its position that adult citizens who had joined Daesh (ISIS) abroad should stay where they were and face justice. The children were either orphans or unaccompanied in the camps, the...