The United Nations Security Council on Friday extended a long-running peacekeeping mission between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights for six months and expressed concern that military activities in the area could escalate tensions. Since a lightning rebel offensive ousted...

At least eleven people are dead and up to 80 people injured in an attack on a German Christmas market in Magdeburg, Bild newspaper reported Friday, without citing its sources. A car drove into a crowd at a Christmas market in the eastern German town of Magdeburg, broadcaster MDR and other...

The US on Friday said it has killed Daesh/ISIS terror group’s leader Abu Yusif in an airstrike in eastern Syria.  "On Dec. 19, U.S. Central Command Forces conducted a precision airstrike targeting ISIS leader Abu Yusif aka Mahmud in the Dayr az Zawr Province, Syria resulting in two ISIS...

Syrian opposition groups that toppled the al-Assad regime “set the Iranian project in the region back by 40 years,” Ahmad al-Sharaa, head of the new government, said in an interview published Friday. Speaking to pan-Arab publication Asharq al-Awsat, the opposition leader, also known as...