Syria

Latest Stories

In this undated file photo released online in the summer of 2014 on a militant social media account, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, militants of the Islamic State group hold up their weapons and wave its flags on their vehicles in a convoy on a road leading to Iraq, in Raqqa, Syria. (Militant photo via AP) **FILE**

US coalition targets IS figure involved in killing American

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Syria says US-led coalition fired missiles on its positions

Associated Press

Syria sends UN complaints over Israeli, US-led airstrikes

Associated Press

Syria state TV says air defenses repelled missile attack

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

The Latest: Syria says air defenses confront ‘enemy targets’

Associated Press

FILE - This Wednesday, April 4, 2018, file photo shows a U.S. position, installed near the tense front line between the U.S-backed Syrian Manbij Military Council and the Turkish-backed fighters, in Manbij, north Syria. U.S. forces have set up an observation point in a Syrian town controlled by its Kurdish-led Syrian allies along the border with Turkey in northeastern Syria, scene of recent tension. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

UN: No progress on forming Syria constitutional committee

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

UN panel: Syrian families need information on dead, missing

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows a man receiving oxygen through respirators following a suspected chemical attack on his town of al-Khalidiya, in Aleppo, Syria, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Some 50 civilians were being treated following a suspected poison gas attack by Syrian rebel groups on the government-held Aleppo city in the country's north, according to Syrian state media. (SANA via AP)

Pentagon denies envoy’s account of clashes with Russia in Syria

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands at the beginning of a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Russia-Ukraine Kerch Strait incident tests Donald Trump, U.S. power

By Guy Taylor and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Lebanese Minister of State for Refugee Affairs, Mouin Merhebi, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press, at his office, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018. Merhbi says about 12,000 Syrian refugees have returned home since June, some of them have been killed, detained or forced to join the military slowing down the return of Syrians residing in Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon minister: Syrian abuses slow return of refugees

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows medical staff treating a boy following a suspected chemical attack on his town of al-Khalidiya, in Aleppo, Syria, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Some 50 civilians were being treated following a suspected poison gas attack by Syrian rebel groups on the government-held Aleppo city in the country's north, according to Syrian state media. (SANA via AP)

Watchdog mulls sending team to Syria after gas attack

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows people receiving treatment at a hospital following a suspected chemical attack on his town of al-Khalidiya, in Aleppo, Syria, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. At least 41 civilians were being treated following a suspected poison gas attack by Syrian rebel groups on government-held Aleppo city in the country's north, according to Syrian state media. (SANA via AP)

The Latest: Syria’s Assad reshuffles Cabinet

Associated Press

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows a woman receiving oxygen through respirators following a suspected chemical attack on her town of al-Khalidiya, in Aleppo, Syria, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. Some 50 civilians were being treated following a suspected poison gas attack by Syrian rebel groups on the government-held Aleppo city in the country's north, according to Syrian state media. (SANA via AP)

Russian warplanes strike rebels after alleged gas attack

By ALBERT AJI and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Russian FM says US pursues ‘hidden agenda’ in Syria

Associated Press

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows a man receiving treatment at a hospital following a suspected chemical attack on his town of al-Khalidiya, in Aleppo, Syria, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. At least 41 civilians were being treated following a suspected poison gas attack by Syrian rebel groups on government-held Aleppo city in the country's north, according to Syrian state media. (SANA via AP)

The Latest: Syrian rebels dismiss poison-gas claims

Associated Press

In this photo undated photo released by the Syrian anti-government activist group Kafranbl News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a portrait of the anti-Syrian government activist Raed Fares, who was also a vocal critic of Islamic militants, killed on Friday, Nov. 23, 2018, by gunmen with his colleague Hammoud al-Juneid, in Kafr Nabl, south of Idlib. A war monitor and Syrian activists are reporting that masked gunmen in the country's rebel-held northwestern province have killed a prominent figure in Syria's anti-government movement who was also a sharp critic of Islamist militants. (Kafranbl News via AP)

Prominent Syrian activist killed in rebel-held province

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018, file photo, an Iraqi soldier watches smoke rising after an airstrike by US-led International coalition warplanes against ISIS, on the border between Syria and Iraq in Qaim, Anbar province, Iraq. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) ** FILE **

Iraqi town fearful as battle against IS rages next door

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

Iraq says airstrikes kill 40 Islamic State fighters in Syria

Associated Press

In this photo released by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard on Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, missiles are fired from the city of Kermanshah in western Iran targeting the Islamic State group in Syria. Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said Monday it launched ballistic missiles into eastern Syria targeting militants it blamed for a recent attack on a military parade. (Sepahnews via AP) **FILE**

U.S.-led coalition denies civilian casualties reportedly tied to Islamic State airstrikes

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

The leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, delivers a sermon at a mosque in Iraq during his first public appearance, July 5, 2014. The Islamic State group released on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017 a purported audio recording from top leader al-Baghdadi. (Militant video via AP) ** FILE **

U.S. names al-Baghdadi confidant as ‘Global Terrorist,’ says ISIS ‘down but not out’

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times