Syria

Middle East

Iranian FM arrives in Damascus amid heightened tensions

Middle East

Israeli airstrikes rock southern suburbs of Beirut and cut off a key crossing into Syria

Lebanese refugees arriving in Iraq, Oct. 3, 2024. (Photo: Kurdistan24)

Iraq

Iraq welcomes hundreds of Lebanese refugees amid Lebanon's crisis

Passengers wait to board their flight at Beirut's International airport on September 28, 2024. (Photo: AFP)

Middle East

Over 50,000 have fled Lebanon for Syria amid Israeli strikes: UN

Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese town of Sarafand, on September 26, 2024. (Photo: AFP)

Middle East

More than 22,000 flee to Syria as Israel strikes Lebanon: Syria security sources

This is a locator map for Syria with its capital, Damascus. (Photo: AP)

Syria

Militias in Afrin attack peaceful women's protest, injuring locals

Pentagon building. (Photo: Pentagon official web page)

Kurdistan

US: ISIS ‘Needs to be Taken Very, Very Seriously’

Lebanese citizens watch Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speak on television as black smoke rises following Israeli attacks on a Hezbollah stronghold in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, on July 16, 2006. (Photo: AP/Kevork Dja

Middle East

Some Lebanese who fear war is coming have an unusual backup plan: Moving to Syria

This is a locator map for Syria with its capital, Damascus. (Photo: AP)

Syria

US forces eliminate senior Hurras al-Din figure in Syria

Syrian troops fighting ISIS earlier this year. (Photo: AFP)

World

ISIS Resurgent in Syria: WSJ Report

Middle East

Moderate quake felt in Syria and Lebanon: official media

This is a locator map for Syria with its capital, Damascus. (Photo: AP)

Syria

Five Pro-Iranian fighters killed in drone strike near Syrian-Iraqi border: Syrian Observatory

The Grand Mosque of Mosul. (Photo: Kurdistan24)

Kurdistan

Mosul residents fear return of ISIS amid SDF's release of prisoners

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Syria's President Bashar al-Assad during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on July 24, 2024. (Photo: Valery SHARIFULIN/ AFP)

World

Russian leader Putin meets Syrian president Assad in Moscow: TV

Freed Syrian detainees gather in front of posters showing Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, and his father Hafez Assad after they were released from Adra Prison on the north-east outskirts of Damascus, Syria, on Jan. 15, 2013. (Photo: A

World

Syrian official who oversaw prison where alleged abuse took place arrested by US officials

This is a locator map for Iraq with its capital, Baghdad. (Photo: AP)

Iraq

Islamic State attacks on track to double in Iraq and Syria compared to last year, US military says