BEIRUT (dpa) - The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have expelled the Islamic State from half of al-Raqqa as it fights to drive the extremists from their de-facto capital in Syria, an...
WASHINGTON, Frank Fuhrig (dpa) - White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci blasted rivals within President Donald Trump's inner circle in an obscenity-laden interview published Thursday....
WASHINGTON, Anne K Walters (dpa) - US lawmakers approved a measure Tuesday that would make it more difficult for US President Donald Trump to remove sanctions against Russia. The lower House of...
WASHINGTON (dpa)- Nearly two thirds of Muslim Americans say they are dissatisfied with the direction the United States is heading, a survey released on Wednesday by the Pew Research Center shows. An...
DAMASCUS, Ramadan al-Fatash and Khalil Hamlo (dpa)- The al-Qaeda-linked militia Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) on Sunday took control of the city of Idlib in northern Syria from rebel fighters, a Syrian...
BEIRUT, LEBANON- Clashes in Syria's Idlib province between a powerful jihadist group and a key rebel faction intensified overnight, spreading to a border crossing with Turkey, a monitor and AFP...
BEIRUT, LEBANON, Sara Hussein- Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah group said on Friday its fighters had begun an operation against militants on both sides of the country's border with Syria. The operation...
AVIGNON, FRANCE, Marie-Pierre Ferey and Fiachra Gibbons- A hugely moving debut drama about exile set in a Vietnamese restaurant has become a surprise hit at the world's biggest theatre festival, with...
BAGHDAD (dpa), Kadham al-Attabi and Khaled Jamal– Iraqi counter-terrorism units detained twenty female Islamic State members from a tunnel discovered under a Mosul Old City neighbourhood, days after...
BEIRUT (dpa)- New sanctions imposed by the European Union against 16 members of the Syrian regime for their alleged role in a chemical weapons attack earlier this year are "unustified," said Syria on...