U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday sought to seize the high ground in a heated debate over the departure of U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis, while the Pentagon chief authorized the withdrawal of U.S forces from Syria that had helped trigger his resignation. A day after Trump...

Kurdish-led forces made fresh gains against jihadists defending their eastern Syria stronghold Monday, forcing hundreds of people to flee the fighting, a war monitor said. The Syrian Democratic Forces, with aerial support from the US-led coalition, closed in on the two main spots where...

They lurk under shifting desert sands, amid the debris of urban roadsides and inside abandoned schools, some set to go off at the lightest touch. Land mines scattered by Yemen's Houthi rebels are largely unmapped and will remain a threat even if the latest push for peace succeeds in...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Uncontrolled and expired medicines have been spreading in opposition-held areas in northern Syria what put civilians' live at risk, activists and medcis said. Most of the drugs enter to Syria through Bab al-Salama border crossing near the town of Azaz, which lacks...