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The notorious Rukban displacement camp in the Syrian desert, a dark emblem of the country’s civil war, has closed, with the last remaining families returning to their hometowns. Syrian ...
After 9 years in a notorious displacement camp in the Syrian desert, Yasmin Al-Saleh and her family return home for the first time during Eid al-Adha holiday. With no water and food, it's still ...
In this photo provided by the Syrian Emergency Task Force, American Travis Timmerman, right, sits with Mosaed al-Rifai, center, who found him in the Syrian desert, and the owner of the house where ...
U.S. troops based in Syria's southeastern desert have expanded their footprint, rebels there say, increasing the risk of direct ground confrontation between the Americans and Iran-backed pro ...
Norwegian archaeologists have solved one of the great puzzles of the Roman Empire: Why was the vibrant city of Palmyra located in the middle of the Syrian Desert?
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - An estimated 2,000 Islamic State (ISIS) militants remain active in Syria’s vast desert regions, a spokesperson for a faction aligned with the Kurdish-led Syrian ...
About 20 Syrian soldiers were killed after gunmen, who may have been members of the Islamic State group, ambushed a bus in the country’s east.
The death toll from an attack blamed on the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria has risen to 68, an activist group said on Saturday, the deadliest attack in over a year.
ISIS killed an estimated 84 Syrian soldiers and 44 civilians in central Syria in March, making it the most violent month in the ISIS desert campaign since late 2017.
An Israeli attack on Syria's historic city of Palmyra killed 36 people and wounded more than 50 on Wednesday after it hit residential buildings and an industrial zone, the Syrian state news agency ...
Behrouz Esbati, an Iranian general, partially blamed Russia for the fall of Bashar Assad in Syria. In a speech in Tehran, Esbati accused Russia of bombing an empty desert instead of hitting Syrian ...
Syria confirms closure of civil war-era desert camp, displaced return home The Rukban displacement camp, which opened and was cut off in the height of the civil war in 2014, housed thousands of ...