An explosion hit Syria’s coastal city of Banyas on Monday, local media reported. The blast was caused by an improvised explosive device attached to a parked police car next to a police station in the city, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) said, citing a security source. No injuries were...

US President Donald Trump will test his deal-making capabilities on a trip to Asia, a region battered by his trade policies, while doubts hang over his highly anticipated meeting with China’s Xi Jinping. Trump, who left Washington on Friday night, is set for a five-day trip to...

Armed Druze factions and Arab tribes exchanged prisoners on Sunday in Syria’s southern Suwayda province, coordinated by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the Damascus government. The exchange took place in the town of al-Mtoneh in the northern countryside of Suwayda, an Anadolu reporter said....

There was no mistaking the reek of death that rose along the Syrian desert highway four nights a week for nearly two years. It was the smell of thousands of bodies being trucked from one mass grave to another, secret location. Drivers were forbidden to leave their cabs. Mechanics and...