U.S. officials say the United States is finalizing plans to evacuate several hundred Syrian civil defense workers and their families from southwest Syria as Russian-backed regime forces close in on the area. Two officials familiar with the plans said Thursday that the U.S., Britain and...

Khaled’s delicate hands were accustomed to cutting and styling hair in his Syrian hometown Harasta. Now, they’re hauling concrete and sweeping floors in order to repair homes ravaged by years of fighting.Mountains of rubble still block many of the main thoroughfares in Harasta, a town...

Former Syrian rebel commander Omar Melhem has nearly come full circle. He was a colonel in the Syrian regime army when the uprising against Bashar Assad began in 2011. He defected a year later and joined the armed revolt against the Syrian leader. Then, when Assad’s forces marched...

President Donald Trump has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to Washington this fall for another round of summit talks.  White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said on Twitter that Trump agreed with Putin "to ongoing working level dialogue" between the U.S. and Russian...