In essence, jihadist terror is a convenient form of religious sacrifice. Moreover, the jihadi rallying cry, “We love death,” ...

This will pause the fighting after 15 months of war and see the release of dozens of hostages held by the militants in the ...

Despite protest over Syria's more "Islamic" curriculum changes, there are parallel priorities, observers say. After 14 years of war, millions of children remain out of school, and schools need to be ...

The mother of American journalist Austin Tice, who was taken captive during a reporting trip to Syria in August 2012, arrived ...

Uyghur fighters from the Turkistan Islamic Party helped Hayat Tahrir al-Sham overthrow the Bashar al-Assad regime, hindering ...

Syria's new leadership has seized abandoned military housing lived in by former high-ranking Republican Guard soldiers who ...

Syria's new leadership has seized abandoned military housing previously occupied by former high-ranking soldiers who fled following the ouster of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad. But questions ...

With an Israel-Hamas cease-fire set to begin, the shock waves from their war have reshaped the region in unexpected ways.

US officials confirmed that a ceasefire has been reached between Israel and Hamas that would pause the war in Gaza and release dozens of hostages ...

While Russian ally Bashar al-Assad was being toppled by rebels in Syria, another friend of Moscow, President Faustin-Archange Touadéra, was being chaperoned by Kremlin-backed mercenaries in the ...