A general and four soldiers were killed Sunday in an attack in eastern Syria, a where jihadist groups are active, a war monitor said. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a bomb exploded close to the vehicle carrying the five troops in Deir Ezzor province. The...

The U.S. military covered up 2019 airstrikes in Syria that killed up to 64 women and children, a possible war crime, during the battle against Islamic State, the New York Times reported on Saturday. The two back-to-back airstrikes near the town of Baghuz were ordered by a classified American...

  Turkish-backed Syrian rebels on Saturday shot down a Russian reconnaissance drone in the northeastern Ras al-Ayn region at the fire line with the Kurdish-led forces.   Rebel sources told Zaman al-Wasl that the Ahrar al-Sharqiya Division, key rebel faction in the National...

Mosul (Iraq) (AFP) – Iraqi wheat farmer Khamis Ahmad Abbas lost it all when his battle with drought forced him to abandon his land, pushing him into unemployment. Experts have warned that record low rainfall, compounded by climate change, are threatening social and economic disaster in...