The body doubles and counter-surveillance were just the start. To bring a documentarian of Assad’s atrocities to Congress, Syrian activists had to grapple with the State Department, too. In the morning hours of July 31, 2014, a former Syrian military police photographer with...

(Reuters) - Iraqi security forces and militias fought their way into Saddam Hussein's home city of Tikrit on Wednesday, advancing from the north and south in their biggest counter-offensive so far against Islamic State militants. In a possible response to the fighting north of...

  Turkey has closed two border crossings with Syria as a security precaution as fighting around the northern Syrian city of Aleppo intensifies, Turkish customs and government officials said on Wednesday. The crossings at Oncupinar and Cilvegozu in Turkey's southern...

(Anadolu News Agency)- Local forces supported by the U.S.-led coalition airstrikes seized a key terrain from the Daesh terror group in northeast Syria, the U.S. said Tuesday.   The seizure now denies the terror group, also known as ISIL, access to its...