Iraq has officially reopened the Qaim border crossing with Syria for trade and passenger traffic, a spokesman for the Iraqi border authority said on Saturday, marking a key step in efforts to ...

DAMASCUS, June 12 (Reuters) - Middle East leaders and their Western allies have been warning that Islamic State could exploit the fall of the Assad regime to stage a comeback in Syria and neighbouring ...

President Trump eases most sanctions against Syria in a move to reclaim regional leverage, counter Iranian influence, and ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — British Foreign Secretary David Lammy met in Damascus on Saturday with Syria’s interim President Ahmad ...

The Iraq-Syria border is 600 km. long, and most of it consists of desert that is hard to secure and police. The main crossing for extremists who have flooded into Iraq in the past has been from ...

The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces, U.S. Central ...

Syrian authorities were quick to condemn last month’s suicide attack on the Greek Orthodox Church of Mar Elias, which left 25 ...

How the ISIS offensive in Iraq will impact Syria's war. — -- As Twitter photos from jihadi fighters showed fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) driving tanks through a ...

US troops have carried out 387 missions against ISIS in Iraq and Syria so far this year, compared with 313 operations in all of 2022. The US has conducted more missions against ISIS in Iraq and ...

ISIS militias in Iraq and Syria are on pace to double the number of their attacks from last year. ISIS has carried out 153 attacks in both Iraq and Syria in the first six months of 2024, compared ...

The Islamic State can still tap a large war chest of as much as $400 million, which has been hidden in either Iraq and Syria or smuggled into neighboring countries for safekeeping.It is also ...

American officials said the strikes — against two targets in eastern Syria and a third just across the border in Iraq — were carried out about 1 a.m. Monday local time by a mix of Air Force F ...