The Pentagon said on Monday a ceasefire between Turkey and the US-backed Kurdish Syrian forces around the northern Syrian city of Manbij was holding. Washington brokered an initial ceasefire earlier this month after fighting that broke out as opposition forces advanced on Damascus and...

The Israeli army launched an airstrike in the Bekaa region in eastern Lebanon on Wednesday, the first such attack since a cease-fire agreement last month, Lebanese media said. The Israeli strike targeted an area between the towns of Talia and Hizzine in the Baalbek district, the state news...

Jordan stands ready to help Syria rebuild, its foreign minister said after meeting Syria’s new de facto ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus on Monday, the highest-level contact by an Arab state with Syria’s new administration. Qatar’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mohammed...

Syria’s ousted leader Bashar Assad claimed on Monday that he took refuge at a Russian base during the dramatic fall of the decades-long Baath regime earlier this month. Assad, who ruled Syria for nearly 25 years, fled to Russia on Dec. 8 after anti-regime groups seized control of the...