U.S.-led warplanes bombed the north bank of the Euphrates River in eastern Syria on Friday to flush out holdout militants from the last sliver of their crumbling "caliphate." Friday's bombardment ended two days of relative calm on the front line in the remote village of Baghouz near the...

After years of war, the scent of laurel oil once again wafts from a small soap workshop in Aleppo, signalling the revival of a landmark trade in the battered northern city. Surrounding soap workshops in the Al-Nayrab district still lie in ruins, badly damaged in the four-year battle for the...

Kurdish-led forces Thursday combed the banks of the Euphrates in eastern Syria to smoke out the last jihadists preventing the much-delayed announcement of the demise of the Islamic State's "caliphate". The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launched an assault against the last IS...

Prime Minister Theresa May made an impassioned plea to British lawmakers to support her on Wednesday after the European Union said it could only grant her request to delay Brexit if parliament next week backed her plans for leaving. May had earlier asked the EU to let Britain delay its...