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The US launched airstrikes against Iran-backed militants in Syria and Iraq on Sunday in response to drone attacks against American troops and facilities in Iraq, the Pentagon said.

Rockets landed at a US military base in eastern Syria on Monday, a day after the US carried out airstrikes on Iranian-backed militias, according to a US defense official with direct knowledge of the early reports.

United States forces came under rocket fire one day after the Biden administration launched airstrikes in Syria and Iraq. A spokesman for the coalition forces fighting ISIS tweeted out that there were no injuries sustained and the damage was being...

Senator Lindsey Graham said Israel cannot trust the United States to act as a deterrent against the power of Iran. Graham added on "Hannity" that Iran is trying to "hold the world hostage."

Iranian state media has said that the deadly attack on a tanker connected to an Israeli billionaire was in retaliation for an Israeli strike in Syria, in an escalation of maritime tensions in the Middle East.

More than two years after one of two ISIS soldiers refused to offer an apology for his role in the kidnapping and brutal murders of four Americans and other hostages in Syria, he has pleaded guilty in federal court.

A Pennsylvania couple has been sentenced to federal prison after they sent thousands of dollars to two relatives to travel to Syria to join ISIS.

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 US drone strike in Syria killed senior al-Qaeda leader Salim Abu-Ahmad earlier this month, military officials said Thursday.

CNN's Jomana Karadsheh reports as Idlib province in northwest Syria is ravaged by a Covid-19 outbreak.

Syria has reopened its war-ravaged country for tourism amid active terror threats and a broken economy hammered by years of brutal war and COVID-19.

Syria has been ravaged by a civil war since early 2011 when the Assad regime cracked down on pro-democracy protesters.

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.