Tag: Damascus

Iraq's paramilitary Hashed al-Shaabi forces said Saturday that they had retaken all areas west of Mosul from the Islamic State ...

Syrian government troops and allied forces reached the Iraqi border for the first time since 2015 on Friday, a monitor ...

A US warplane shot down a pro-regime drone in Syria on Thursday after it fired at coalition forces, officials said, ...

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has said the worst of his country's six-year war "is behind us" after a string of ...

US-led coalition forces in Syria are reinforcing their garrison near the crucial Al-Tanf border crossing amid a buildup of pro-government ...

Lebanon has banned the screening of Hollywood blockbuster "Wonder Woman" because of its lead actress Gal Gadot, who served in ...

Fifty years ago, Sobhi Awwad left the ancient West Bank city of Jericho with his parents, running to dodge the ...

Israelis and Palestinians mark 50 years since the Six-Day War next week as the gap between them further widens, with ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an interview published Tuesday, said he was "convinced" the Syrian government was not behind an ...

Iran-backed, pro-Syrian regime forces are again massing close to where US-led warplanes bombed them this month, the Pentagon said Tuesday, ...

The sound of the blast in Syria's capital Damascus brought worried residents running, but rather than carnage they found a ...

More than 1,000 people quit a rebel-held district of Damascus Monday, its governor said, in the final phase of a ...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday held talks in Cairo with Russia's foreign and defence ministers on ways to ...

Adventurer, Orientalist, spy: the remarkable story of Spanish explorer Ali Bey al-Abbassi is to be told on the silver screen ...

Friday's attack on a bus carrying Egyptian Copts, which killed at least 28 people, was the latest in a wave ...

Dozens of relatives of Islamic State fighters were killed on Friday in new US-led strikes on Syria, just hours after ...

The Syrian army is in full control of the highway from Damascus to ancient Palmyra for the first time since ...

To escape the nightmare of life in their besieged hometown near Syria's capital, 13 young girls sought refuge in a ...

Thousands of Israelis marched through east Jerusalem´s Old City on Wednesday to commemorate 50 years since the Jewish state seized ...

Five people were killed on Tuesday in two car bomb attacks targeting minority neighbourhoods in Syria and claimed by the ...