The U.S. launched airstrikes in Iraq Thursday, American officials said, targeting the Iranian-backed Shia militia members believed responsible for the rocket attack that killed and wounded American and British troops at a base north of Baghdad. One U.S. official said multiple strikes...

The guns may have died down around Damascus as Syria's war enters its 10th year, but florist Abdelqader Qasem says the conflict has left scars he will never forget. The 42-year-old limps slightly as he carries two tree saplings in his right hand in a city market, the empty left sleeve of...

     (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 190 women and children have been freed from the deserted Kurdish-held Al-Hol camp in northeastern Hasaka province over a tribal mediation, local activists said Thursday.   The freed families headed their homes in the village of...

In Syria's northwest, where people uprooted by war are crammed into camps, medics fear the coronavirus would spread widely if it reaches a country with its healthcare system in ruins. Doctors and aid workers say they have recorded no cases so far. But they warned that camps would not cope...