Intensified coalition air strikes have killed at least 300 civilians in the Syrian northern city of Raqqa since March, as U.S.-backed forces close in on the stronghold of Islamic State forces, U.N. war crimes investigators said on Wednesday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a group of...

LafargeHolcim, the Swiss-French cement company, faces a French judicial inquiry into allegations it helped finance terrorism in Syria, a scandal that has already led to the exit of its chief executive. The prosecutors’ office in Paris confirmed on Tuesday that three judges would start...

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Syria's President Bashar Assad has said the worst of his country's six-year war "is behind us" after a string of advances by his forces backed by key ally Russia. In recent months, Assad's troops and allied fighters have retaken territory across the country, including recapturing all of...