The Latest Breaking News from Syria

Turkish volunteer rescue worker Bayram Çini still has nightmares about those he couldn't save. But nothing has touched him more deeply than the seven-hour rescue of Kerem and his cat Strawberry.

Hussain Besou was just four when he started asking his father to teach him chess, hovering around the board as he played in the evenings in the Middle East until he said yes.

Israel's strategic position has experienced a “serious decline” in recent months, according to a warning from the research department at the Military Intelligence Directorate in the Israeli Defense Forces (Aman). The decline is attributed to a significant rift within the Jewish community resulting from the government's plan to overthrow the…

French judges have ordered on Tuesday senior officials of the Syrian regime to stand trial for collusion in crimes against humanity, a first in France, according to court documents seen by AFP. The order, signed last Wednesday, says the three officials are charged with complicity in crimes against humanity and…

French judges charge three senior advisers to Bashar al-Assad with complicity in crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Tension and anticipation dominated Tuesday’s four-way talks in Moscow with the presence of deputy foreign ministers from Russia, Syria, Iran, and Türkiye. Despite secrecy shrouding the consultation round held behind closed doors, the Syrian side's aggressive statements hinted at the failure of efforts to push for normalization between Damascus and…

Israel has intensified its airstrikes in Syria in recent weeks, killing two Iranian military advisers and temporarily putting the country’s two largest international airports out of service

In a Jordanian church, Sarah Nael sews a shirt for a project that has provided scores of women who fled violence in neighbouring Iraq with skills to earn a living. Many of the women escaped the extreme violence carried out by the ISIS's self-declared "caliphate" that cut across swathes of…

Deputy foreign ministers from Russia, Turkey, Syria and Iran on Tuesday completed two days of talks in Moscow aimed at restoring ties between Ankara and Damascus, in a step aimed at easing the international isolation of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.