Tag: Syria

Photos of Syrian children holding pictures of Pokemon characters and asking the world to save them have been circulating the internet. The images, published on...

Islamic State claimed responsibility for suicide and car bomb blasts that struck a Damascus suburb on Saturday near Syria's holiest Muslim shrine, and a...

Islamic State fighters withdrew from frontlines with Syrian rebel forces north of Aleppo on Wednesday as they mounted a counter attack against the jihadist...

The United Nations will formally ask the Syrian government Sunday to allow airdrops of humanitarian aid to besieged areas where access by land has...

Thousands of civilians have fled an offensive by the Islamic State group against non-militant rebels in northern Syria into territory controlled by a US-backed...

Turkish and US-led coalition airstrikes killed 104 Islamic State militants in retaliation for the latest attack on a Turkish border province, Turkish media reported...

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that if Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad did not abide with efforts to establish a truce across Syria...

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri urged rival fighters in Syria to unite or risk death but again decried Islamic State as “extremists” in an...

At least 28 civilians, including women and children, were killed on Thursday in air strikes on a displaced camp in northern Syria near the...

Air strikes destroyed a hospital and killed dozens of people in rebel-held areas of Syria's Aleppo including children and doctors, and the United Nations...

Syrian government troops pushed an offensive Tuesday against militants in the country’s north on the eve of parliament elections — a vote that is...

The Turkish army hit Islamic State targets in northern Syria, in response to cross-border rocket fire that struck a border town in southeastern Turkey...

Militant Islamic State (IS) group fighters on Monday retook control of a northern town along Syria's border with Turkey, just days after losing it...

Jose Mourinho insisted he will be back in management this summer, but it won’t be with the Syrian national team despite an ambitious approach...

A Syrian fighter, who appeared in a gruesome video that showed cutting out the heart of a regime soldier and eating it, has been...

Militants have reduced several temples, columns and other treasures to heaps of stone in Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra, which archaeologists fear will never...

A drone strike near the Daesh group’s de facto Syrian capital Raqa killed a militant commander heading to Aleppo province on orders from the organisation’s chief,...