Turkey sent two firefighting aircraft Saturday to help battle wildfires in neighboring Syria as Turkish firefighters battled ...

US Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack, President Donald Trump’s special envoy to Syria, is prioritizing the demarcation of the ...

Rival Syrian and Kurdish producers are scrambling for shrinking wheat harvests as the worst drought in decades follows a ...

There were no reports of US casualties in the strike on the Qatar base, which came days after the US bombed Iran nuke sites.

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The aim is to forestal dangerous climate change, which the agreement defines as keeping global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels.

Baathist leaders struggled to unify Syria which, to this day, is a patchwork of ideologies, religions and ethnicities (see map 4). In 1970 the defence minister, Hafez al-Assad, took over the party ...

The Golan Heights, situated in the southwest corner of Syria and bordering Israel, Lebanon and Jordan, is a 1,000 square mile rocky plateau around 40 miles (60 kilometres) from Damascus, although ...

The Syrian regime responded by shelling rebel-held areas while the Russian air force carried out air strikes. Fighters from HTS in military vehicles in the eastern outskirts of Atarib, Aleppo, on ...

Syrian insurgents have forced president Bashar al-Assad 's army to retreat from the key city of Hama – a major victory after a lightning advance across the north Syria.

Syrian officials underscored their primary focus was on securing funding for climate adaptation in the war-torn country, a concern other conflict-ridden states share.

High temperatures due to human-caused climate change made the drought“much more likely to happen” - about 25 times more likely in Syria and Iraq and 16 times more likely in Iran, according to ...