Who could have predicted that in the two decades following the 9/11 attacks, the United States would wage various kinds of military operations in seven Muslim countries -- in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen -- at the...
Afghanistan is no longer the US' top concern among international terrorist threats to the American homeland, the nation's top spy said at an intelligence and national security conference in Washington on Monday, even amid ongoing fears from some...
In Damascus, chef Imad Alarnab says he ran three popular restaurants, alongside several juice bars and cafes. During the Syrian civil war, Alarnab's businesses were destroyed, and Alarnab was forced to leave his home country.
With millions of refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq fleeing their homes over the last decade, images of despair -- of people huddled on boats, of bodies washed ashore -- also migrated across newspaper front pages and down news feeds.
A drone attack targeted US troops at the US base at At-Tanf in Syria, close to the border with Jordan, on Wednesday, according to a US defense official.
Syria has executed 24 people who were convicted of terrorism charges for igniting last year's devastating wildfires that left 3 people dead and scorched thousands of acres of forests, the Syrian Ministry of Justice said Thursday.
An airstrike in northwest Syria Friday killed senior al-Qaeda leader Abdul Hamid al-Matar, according to the US Central Command. The military said it has "no indications of civilian casualties as a result of the strike."
Abdul Hamid al-Matar was killed by an airstrike in the northwest section of the country, according to Army Maj. John Rigsbee, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command.