U.S.-backed militias have completely taken Syria's Raqqa from Daesh (ISIS), the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Tuesday. The fall of Raqqa city, where Daesh staged euphoric parades after its string of lightning victories in 2014, is a potent symbol of the extremist movement's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 47,000 Syrian refugees have returned to Turkey after the 15-day Eid holidays via Bab al-Salama border crossing, while about 7,000 have decided to stay in the northern countryside of Aleppo, the border administration said on Monday.  This week 476...

Daesh (ISIS) claimed responsibility Monday for two rockets fired from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula into southern Israel. The strikes hit the Eshkol region close to the border late Sunday without causing injury or significant damage, the army said. The militant group claimed...

Lebanon can no longer handle vast numbers of Syrian refugees, its president said on Monday, urging world powers to help them return to the calmer parts of their war-torn homeland. More than six years into the Syrian war, 1.5 million refugees who fled the violence now account for a...