ISTANBUL -- Turkey sent two firefighting aircraft Saturday to help battle wildfires in neighboring Syria as Turkish ...

Firefighting efforts have been hampered by the presence of mines and unexploded ordnance left over from the civil war, as the country grapples with the worst drought in decades.

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian authorities have arrested a cousin of former President Bashar Assad, who is under U.S. sanctions for his alleged role in drug trafficking and support to forces ...

(Reuters) -Syria's security forces have detained Wassim al-Assad, a cousin of toppled leader Bashar al-Assad, state news agency SANA said on Saturday.

Look at a map of the world showing all the airplanes currently in the air and what stands out most — apart from the staggering number of aircraft up there — are the gigantic holes in the sky ...

DAMASCUS - Syria has carried out its first international bank transaction via the SWIFT system since the outbreak of its 14-year civil war, its central bank governor said on Thursday, a milestone ...

DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Syria this week carried out its first international bank transfer via the SWIFT international payment system since the outbreak of the country’s 14-year civil war, central ...

Damascus, Syria, holds the record as the world's oldest continuously inhabited city, surviving for over 11,000 years. Despite wars, empires, and revolutions, life persists through ancient ...

A Syrian doctor, center, accused of torture and war crimes in his Syrian homeland, stands next to his lawyer Oussama Al-Agi, right, in the Higher Regional Court before the verdict is announced in ...

Tel Aviv [Israel]: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Saturday issued a new graphic showing Kashmir as Indian territory ... stating that they "mistakenly used the wrong world map" while focusing on ...