Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appeared close to victory in Aleppo on Wednesday, but United Nations and rebel officials denied that an operation to evacuate fighters and civilians from the city had been completed. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group that monitors the war, said...

Buses carrying Syrian civilians and fighters began leaving the last rebel-held enclave of Aleppo on Wednesday after being stalled for a day, aid officials and pro-government media reports said. Obstacles hindering evacuations from east Aleppo and from two villages besieged by rebels outside...

(Vox)- Israel has spent years trying to avoid getting sucked into the vicious civil war raging in neighboring Syria. It’s now wading into the conflict in a way you wouldn’t expect. On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he has ordered his government to “find...

Jordanian security forces have arrested a man suspected of funding an attack by ISIS that killed 10 people including a Canadian tourist, a security source said Wednesday. The suspect was detained in a raid on a house in Karak province Tuesday by police looking for the perpetrators behind...