In a significant recalibration of US foreign policy, the Trump administration has taken concrete steps to disengage from Syria. The decision in April to withdraw 500 troops from eastern Syria, ...

The Islamic State is staging a resurgence in parts of Syria and Iraq, with fighters regrouping in cities and testing weakened ...

Assad’s regime on Dec. 8, 2024, after the rebel military operation “Deterrence of Aggression” and the establishment of a ...

Israel’s army has raided a village in southern Syria to arrest several alleged agents of the Palestinian militant group Hamas ...

ACCORDING TO ONE legend, the Kurds are descended from 400 virgins who were raped by devils on the way to King Solomon's court. Fatah Kavian, a member of the central committee of the anti-Khomeini ...

A contractor in northern Syria stumbled upon the remains of an underground Byzantine tomb complex believed to be more than ...

In 1967, during the six-day war with its Arab neighbours, Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria, as well as other land in the region (see map 5). The Assads increasingly sought to challenge ...

The UAE has condemned the publishing of maps by official Israeli government social media accounts that include parts of Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. These maps, which were ...

The colossal explosion, which registered as a 3.0-magnitude earthquake on nearby seismic sensors, left the region reeling following the toppling of tyrant Bashar al-Assad. Syria’s new de facto ...

The Eighth Brigade in Dara'a province is a military formation established in 2018 after the settlement agreements that followed the Syrian regime's control of the southern region with Russian support.

Syrian Arab inhabitants fled the area during the conflict, before an armistice line was drawn and the region was brought under the control of the Israeli military. Settlers began to enter the ...

Here's a map ... Syria remains unclear, though the country says a deal was brokered to ensure the safety of its military bases. They were used to back Assad and give Russia a footprint in the region.