The U.S. freeze comes as IS tries to take advantage of the vacuum created by the fall of Assad’s government in early December ...

The regime set up by Hafez al-Assad after the coup d'état of November 13, 1970, had only one objective: Its own continuity, ...

The Trump administration’s unprecedented freeze on foreign aid has caused chaos and uncertainty in a camp holding thousands ...

Michael Erik Kurilla, head of U.S. Central Command, said during a visit to al-Hol in mid-January. Hanan said that since the fall of Assad, many Syrians in the camp have expressed a desire to ...

Upholding security at the camp is seen as critical to prevent a resurgence of the Islamic State. A contractor that trains the ...

Ahmad Abdullah Hammoud was lucky to have some food stored to feed his family after a US-funded organization abruptly suspended its aid activities at the sprawling tent camp in northeastern Syria where ...

The Israeli military blew up at least 20 buildings in the West Bank city of Jenin on Sunday, staging controlled demolitions ...

Hamas released eight hostages on Thursday — five Thai farm workers and three dual German-Israeli nationals — in exchange for ...

Militants in the Gaza Strip have released eight hostages, handing them over to the Red Cross amid chaotic crowds as part of a ...

Crowds of displaced Palestinians made the arduous journey back to heavily destroyed northern Gaza for a second day, under a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas ...

In Arabic, Assad means “lion,” although that wasn’t his real name. Hafez, Bashar’s father, had adopted it to look strong. Hasan was born in the northeastern Syrian city of Manbij, 18 years before the ...

An Indonesian woman who felt duped into joining the Islamic State’s ”caliphate“ in Syria tells TIME of the challenges of ...