In 2004 a rugby union team was formed in the Syrian capital Damascus. It consisted of British and French players working in the country, and one Syrian: Mohamad Jarkou. As protests against Syria’s ...

A tense standoff between the Syrian Government and Kurdish-led forces in the country’s northeast risks igniting wider ...

Following a Syrian family for more than 10 years as they flee civil war and resettle in Germany, Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes ...

Syria's government is trying to forcefully absorb a Syrian Kurdish paramilitary group that once controlled much of the country's northeast. The fight ultimately comes down to a clash about Syria's ...

The new deal also calls for a cease-fire. Government forces have taken strategic assets from the militia in recent days, ...

President Ahmed al-Sharaa said the deal would allow the Syrian state to reassert control over most areas.

In mid-January 2026, Syrian government forces and allied Arab tribal fighters executed a swift cross-Euphrates offensive, ...

LATAKIA, Syria (AP) — Syrian firefighters are facing heavy winds, high temperatures and ordnance left behind from the 13-year civil war as they try to extinguish some of country's worst wildfires in ...

Syrian Transitional President Ahmed al Shara and his political allies are building a new Syrian army as part of their effort to unite Syria under their Damascus-based government. The establishment of ...

Syria's civil war cannot be traced to a single environmental cause but is deeply rooted in policy and socioeconomic failures that increased agricultural vulnerability. The 2007-2009 drought caused a ...

However, the trouble emanates from the fact, based on the previous experiences that the balance of power in the region was ...

Fleeing a civil war, Syria's refugees have nearly doubled in the past year. — -- The number of Syrians fleeing their war-torn homeland for neighboring countries has passed the 4 million mark, ...