Rival groups are reporting intense battles in eastern Syria between Daesh (ISIS) and U.S.-backed fighters. The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces says the fighting Thursday is over the village of Souseh where a sandstorm has caused bad visibility. The Britain-based Syrian...

 Syria’s wheat crop this year was the smallest in three decades as war and drought cut production by around 30 percent, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said Tuesday. Output of 1.2 million tons in 2018 was the lowest since 1989 and compared with a pre-crisis average...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR)  has released a   report  on the 4th anniversary of the beginning of the international coalition’s intervention in Syria in  September 23, 2014 , outlines the most notable attacks by international coalition forces since the...

War-weary Afghans continue to long for peace amid a deadly and resurgent insurgency 17 years since the launch of Operation Enduring Freedom, the longest war by the U.S. claiming hundreds of thousands of lives and costing trillions of dollars. Many observers in Afghanistan see the resent...