In the past week, the Pentagon has acknowledged that its footprint in Iraq and Syria is bigger than it has claimed for years ...

Iraq started on Thursday to send Syrian soldiers of deposed former leader Bashar al-Assad's army back to their homeland, ...

The number of US troops in Syria has regularly surged higher than the Pentagon has publicly disclosed since at least 2020, ...

Assad’s ouster has raised urgent questions about the 2,000 troops who serve as a bulwark against ISIS and Iran.

"I believe there will be violent fighting, the end of which we do not know," a top Syrian Democratic Council official told ...

A Pentagon spokesman said the increase was unrelated to the fall of President Bashar al-Assad to rebel forces in early ...

The country is deeply divided along religious and ethnic lines, which makes continuing violence one likely scenario.

The church bells still ring in Syria’s ancient Christian enclaves, but their sound carries a bittersweet resonance. Two weeks ...

The Syrian regime’s collapse came more quickly than the rebels had dreamed — the circumstances were both serendipitous and ...

With hostile Turkish-backed groups mobilising against them in Syria's north, and Damascus ruled by a group friendly to Ankara ...

How did Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad get away with murdering hundreds of thousands and dumping them in mass graves? Easy: ...

During the course of Syria’s brutal civil war, Assad used chemical weapons more than 300 times against his own citizens, ...