The United Nations refugee agency should have a bigger presence inside Syria to observe and help refugees returning from abroad and from displacement within the war-torn country, UNHCR Commissioner Filippo Grandi said on Saturday. After almost eight years of fighting, President Bashar...

Salwa Sayed al-Omar spent years as a Yazidi prisoner of Islamic State but she escaped its clutches this week, fleeing its last populated enclave in east Syria along with two Iraqi boys pretending to be her brothers. Islamic State overran the Yazidi faith’s heartland of Sinjar in northern...

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) paused military operations against Islamic State (IS) militants holed up in the group’s final enclave in eastern Syria, expecting more civilians to be evacuated from the area on Saturday, an SDF official said. Thousands of people - many of...

Palestinian group Hamas on Saturday condemned an attempt on the life of Fatah leader Ahmed Helles in the Gaza Strip a day earlier.  Helles' vehicle came under fire by unidentified gunmen in the central Gaza Strip on Friday evening, according to Fatah group.  The Fatah leader...