ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Security forces affiliated with the new leadership in Damascus briefly visited Afrin on Thursday and received a warm welcome from locals, including Kurds who raised the ...

For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul until it was destroyed by the Islamic State group in 2017.

Syrian citizens are among the 10 victims of the horror mass shooting in Sweden on Wednesday, the country’s embassy said. Suspected 35-year-old gunman Rickard Andersson, named in Swedish media, ...