These maps help explain the offensive and what is happening on the ground. Between 25 and 35 million ethnic Kurds inhabit a mountainous region straddling Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Armenia.

Fears of escalation are felt most acutely on the streets of Lebanon, where the army carried out controlled explosions on ...

The regime in Damascus has lost control of Syria’s skies and its borders. Its foreign backers, Russia, Iran and its Shia ...

Israel carried out air strikes on several sites in central Syria on Sunday night, the most violent aerial attacks on Syria ...

Syrian state media is reporting a series of Israeli strikes have hit multiple areas in central Syria, killing at least four ...

Syria with its political and geographical connections could easily be seen engaging its two important oil producing neighbors — Iraq and Iran. With the growing sectarian strife in the region ...

"Syria and Syrians have not been exempt from this escalation," he said, adding that mid-August saw Syrians killed in Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon. "We must redouble our efforts towards regional ...

Hundreds of handheld pagers exploded almost simultaneously across Lebanon and in parts of Syria on Tuesday, killing at least eight people, government and Hezbollah officials said. Officials ...

Hundreds of pagers exploded simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday in an attack that apparently targeted members of ...

Syria's foreign Ministry strongly condemned the strikes, calling them Israeli Zionist“aggression” that risked destabilising the region. In a statement, the ministry accused the Israeli regime ...

In Syria, army killed eight militants in the eastern Deir al-Zour, province today (Wednesday). The militants were involved in attacks on military and civilian buses in the desert in the eastern parts ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In what appears to be a sophisticated, remote attack, pagers used by hundreds of members of Hezbollah exploded almost simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria Tuesday, killing at ...