A U.S. envoy says that Syria’s central government and the Kurds remain at odds over plans on merging their forces after the ...

Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Wednesday that Azerbaijan's SOCAR could become a partner in Turkey's ...

The country is experiencing its worst drought in decades, which has set the conditions for the blazes to scorch an area the ...

The longtime enemies have opened contacts, reflecting a power shift across a Middle East in which they have newfound common ...

Syria’s former Foreign Minister Farouk Al-Sharaa has agreed—under a secret deal—to drop Damascus’s longstanding claim to the ...

Last month's deadly church bombing outside Syria's capital is raising fears among the country's minority Christians.

Thousands of Syrian refugees are set to return from Lebanon this week under the first, U.N.-backed plan providing financial ...

The world experienced more than 60 armed conflicts in 2024, a "historically high" number according to scholars in the ...

Hundreds of people have been forced to flee as wildfires spread in northeastern Syria, according to civil defense officials. Emergency crews are battling to contain the fast-moving flames which have ...

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A US envoy says Syria's central government and the Kurds remain at odds over plans on merging forces after latest talks.

Syrian authorities are trying to find the identity of 413 orphans whose parents were ’disappeared’ by the Assad regime, after ...