The Latest Breaking News from Syria

The development of oil and gas in Iraq's northern Kurdish region may not be in the interest of major regional energy producer Iran, Kurdish Prime Minister Masrour Barzani said on Tuesday. Attacks on the region's capital Erbil and the federal government's legal actions have demonstrated the resistance to development in…

Russian warplanes renewed on Monday their raids on de-escalation areas in northwestern Syria as Syrian regime forces targeted Turkish military positions in the countryside of the northern Aleppo governorate for the second day in a row, causing casualties among their troops. “On the morning of Monday, March 28, Russian warplanes…

Within days of the Russian invasion, Western countries invoked international law, imposed crippling sanctions, began welcoming refugees with open arms and cheered on Ukraine's armed resistance. The response has elicited outrage across the Middle East, where many see a glaring double standard in how the West responds to international conflicts.…

An alleged member of a group of ISIS militants that beheaded American hostages in Iraq and Syria, nicknamed "The Beatles" for their British accents, faces a US criminal trial beginning on Tuesday. El Shafee Elsheikh, 33, will stand trial in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, just outside Washington, on charges…

An alleged member of a group of Islamic State militants that beheaded American hostages in Iraq and Syria, nicknamed "The Beatles" for their British accents, faces a U.S. criminal trial beginning on Tuesday.

If convicted, El Shafee Elsheikh faces a mandatory life sentence

Arab League Secretary General Ahmad Aboul Gheit said that the possible understanding between the United States and Iran in the ongoing nuclear negotiations in Vienna, “does not end” the Iranian nuclear threat, calling on Tehran to stop its “adventures” on Arab land, and to refrain from using Arab files to…

Iranian Revolutionary Guards commanders and Syrian regime officers informed locals living in neighborhoods close to the Nairab military airport in Aleppo governorate to evacuate their homes for “security reasons.” The clearing of civilians coincided with military measures and activities carried out by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and its loyalist militias…

Iraq is building a concrete wall along part of its border with Syria to stop ISIS group militants from infiltrating, an Iraqi military source said Sunday. In the "first stage" of construction, a wall around "a dozen kilometers (seven miles) long and 3.5 meters (11 feet) high was built in…

Republican Senators at Congress have warned Joe Biden's administration against lifting any sanctions against the Syrian regime, even though no official moves on the ground have been taken to that end. The legislative and executive authorities in the US have frequently tussled over the Syria, going back to the term…

Bethany Haines says she will plead with El Shafee Elsheikh to reveal where remains of her father and other western hostages lie