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Syrian government forces pressed their offensive in the province of Hama on Friday in a weekslong attack aimed at clearing…

A mysterious Syrian wheat purchase signed last October with a little-known Russian trader has formally been called off, a government…

Buses carrying evacuated Islamic State fighters reached Syria’s Deir al-Zor on Wednesday in return for releasing a Hezbollah prisoner, a…

Turkey on Thursday welcomed an Iraqi parliament move to reject a referendum on Kurdish independence. The parliament in Baghdad authorized…

Syria’s civil war has been one of the modern world’s most brutal conflicts and one of its most heavily filmed.…

Israel supports the establishment of a Kurdish state, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday, as Kurds in Iraq gear…

Russia’s military said Tuesday that Syrian troops have liberated about 85 percent of the war-torn country’s territory from militants, a…

The Syrian government’s powerful Lebanese ally Hezbollah has declared victory in the Syrian war, dismissing remaining fighting as “scattered battles”,…

Syrian government forces seized a final stretch of highway linking the eastern city of Deir al-Zor to the capital Damascus…

The Syrian army and its allies recaptured an oilfield from Islamic State near the eastern city of Deir al-Zor on…