Dozens of people are said to have been killed during days of clashes between a US-backed, Kurdish-led militia and Arab tribal fighters in Syria. The fighting erupted after the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) arrested the head of a tribal militia backed by Arab clans with which it worked in...

Clashes continued on Monday between Arab tribes and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the eastern Syria province of Deir Ezzor.  Operations launched by Arab tribes against the YPG-led Kurdish fighters in Deir Ezzor that started last week expanded with the participation of...

Palestinian activists in the city of Azaz, in northern Syria, have launched a campaign to uncover the fate of Palestinian detainees in Syrian prisons and to demand their release. The campaign’s media coordinator, Maher Shawish, said the campaign will continue until it achieves its goals....

BEIRUT: Hundreds of angry protesters in southern Syria smashed the statue of Syria’s late president on Monday as they they marked the 2015 assassination of a prominent anti-government Druze leader. The protests in the province of Sweida, where the Druze community represents the majority of...

An Iranian soldier from the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was killed in Syria, according to Iranian media on Monday.   The semi-official Fars News Agency identified the soldier as Yahya Rostami, who was killed on August 31.  The agency, however, did...

Jordan shot down a drug-laden drone from Syria on Monday, the ninth such incident this year, according to the military. In a statement, the army said a drone carrying crystal meth was intercepted after illegally crossing the country’s border from Syria. Last month, the Jordanian army...

Nearly four million Syrians students in regime-controlled areas returned to school Sunday, braving the effects of war, a devastating earthquake and a deep economic crisis. But many children do not have classrooms to go to in a country where many educational facilities have been damaged or...

There were high hopes not so long ago that Turkish-Syrian relations might be revived. This hope will not vanish for good, but an early recovery is not in sight. The relations between these two countries were strained for decades. They started to improve when then-Turkish President Ahmet...

The Syrian Ministry of Transport decided to transfer the phosphate exported from the state-run port of Latakia to the port of Tartous, which is owned by a Russian company, which deprived the port workers of the large financial benefit they used to obtain from loading phosphate to export ships....

The Hague (SNHR)– The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) documented in August 223 arbitrary arrest, the rights monitoribnf said in a monthly report. The arrests including 14 children and 17 women.  The 30-page report revealed that most of the arrests taking place in Syria are...

Clashes in Kurdish-held northeast Syria between the army and Turkey-backed armed factions killed 23 people on Sunday after pro-Ankara rebels attempted to infiltrate the area, a war monitor said. Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, reported “18 dead among the...

Protest movements renewed on Sunday in the southern Sweida province as residents of the Druze community stronghold demanded the departure of Bashar al-Assad, the right to live in dignity, freedom and justice. Hundreds of demonstrators came on Sunday from most of the towns and villages of...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet with Vladimir Putin on Monday, hoping to persuade the Russian leader to rejoin the Black Sea grain deal that Moscow broke off from in July. Here are some key things to know and what's at stake: WHERE WILL THE TALKS BE HELD?...

At least one baby was killed and four civilians wounded in an attack by Syrian army forces in a village in eastern Idlib, civilian defense sources said Saturday. The army, stationed in the Saraqib district of Idlib, and Iranian-backed foreign terrorist groups, launched an attack on Sarmin...

U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters brought in reinforcements into eastern Syria and pushed ahead in their offensive Saturday in eastern Deir Ezzor province against local tribespeople, saying that hundreds of pro-government gunmen have joined the worst battles in the region in years. The clashes...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia said Saturday its forces destroyed three Ukrainian naval drones being used in an attempt to attack a key bridge linking Russia to the Moscow-annexed Crimean Peninsula, forcing its temporary closure for a third time in less than a year. One naval drone was...

US jets carried out airstrikes against Iran-backed groups in Syria's eastern Deir ez-Zor province, which is the scene of a clashes between Arab tribes and the US-backed Kurdish fighters, according to local sources. Sources told Anadolu Agency, on condition of anonymity, that Iran-backed...

Cyprus police arrested 13 people after a mob smashed storefronts and set numerous trash bins on fire during an anti-immigration march in the coastal resort city of Limassol, authorities said Saturday. Police said five people reported that they had been assaulted during Friday night’s march...

Greek firefighters rescued a group of 25 migrants trapped in a forest in northeastern Greece Friday as flames from a massive wildfire burning for two weeks approached, authorities said. The fire department said the group became trapped in the forest between two villages in the Evros region,...

 Al-Qaida-linked fighters attacked an army position in northwest Syria on Friday, killing at least nine government soldiers and wounding others, opposition activists said. There was no immediate word from the government. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an...