Deir al-Zour has been described as the most heavily damaged city in Syria by U.N.-Habitat. Traffic weaves past craters and around mounds of rubble. Children play in the ruins beneath great slabs of concrete hanging perilously from buildings. Dust clogs the air.

DAMASCUS, Syria — Israeli drone strikes on a southern suburb of the Syrian capital, Damascus, killed eight soldiers and wounded others, officials and a war monitor reported Wednesday. Syria’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that drone strikes ...

On Thursday, Reuters reported that the “United States is preparing to establish a military presence at an airbase in Damascus to help enable a security pact that Washington is brokering between Syria and Israel.” The report was based on six sources ...

Syrian authorities say security forces have carried out a second operation against ISIL (ISIS) fighters near Damascus, killing a senior figure described as the group’s governor of Hauran. In a statement on Thursday, the Ministry of Interior said the raid ...

Members of Syria’s “Internal Security forces in Damascus Countryside Governorate” show off seized weapons they claim were being smuggled to the SDF in eastern Syria, along with the captured driver. (SANA) On September 2, the state-controlled Syrian ...

Israel carried out a series of powerful strikes on the Syrian capital Damascus Wednesday, escalating a campaign it says is in support of the country’s Druze population - an Arab minority group involved in deadly clashes with Syrian government forces.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of ISIS terrorists. (photo credit: Corbis/Medyan Dairieh, Wikipedia) Israel has demanded that southern Syria be demilitarized, and this has caused a power vacuum as Syria ...

Syria's Kurds have criticised the "threatening language" of the Damascus regime after it pledged to retake northeastern areas they control by reconciliation or by force. The minority have largely stayed out of Syria's war, instead carving out a de-facto ...

Israel carried out multiple airstrikes on the outskirts of Syria’s capital of Damascus, Syrian state media said, denting efforts to ease tensions between the neighboring countries. The attacks on Wednesday hit in the vicinity of Al-Kiswah City, south of ...