The future is uncertain for Syrian Kurd's all-women fighting units, known as the Women's Protection Units (YPJ). Last month the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) they are a part of made a ...

The Supreme Court has struck down President Donald Trump’s far-reaching global tariffs on Friday, handing him a significant ...

A provincial governor wants to prohibit women in government and public sector jobs from wearing makeup, stirring outrage and many, many memes.

Seven months after deadly clashes between Syria's Druze minority and government‑backed forces, the spiritual leader of Druze in neighbouring Israel said members of the community across the border ...

At a military base in northeast Syria, Roksan Mohammed recalled joining the battle against Islamic State group jihadists."We ...

Under Mr Assad, publishing houses were regularly forced to pull books from their shelves; intelligence agencies would rifle through new collections. Unflattering biographies of Bashar were not ...

Islamic State on Thursday claimed responsibility for an attack that killed one Syrian government security officer and wounded another in eastern Syria, marking an escalation in the group's attacks ...

U.S. officials prevented catastrophic ISIS prison break in Syria by secretly moving nearly 6,000 "worst of the worst" ...

The Australian is among a group of 34 women and children who had planned to fly from Damascus to Australia on Monday but were turned back by Syrian authorities to the Roj detention camp due to ...

Al-Hol is largely empty after weeks of unrest and mass escapes, leaving Syria to grapple with the security and political fallout of closing IS camps ...

Multnomah County officials on Thursday announced the indictments of five people in connection to what they described as a “massive” retail theft ring that operated across Oregon for several years.

On the subject of which destinations on his carrier’s route map are the most profitable, Royal Jordanian CEO Samer Majali does not equivocate: “Those difficult ones. The ones nobody else flies to.” ...