In a territory that, until recently, had been controlled by Hezbollah and was plagued by arms and drug smuggling, fighters ...

Lebanese army stepped up security measures along the border, increasing the number of checkpoints, surveillance and patrols ...

The fighting is part of what Syria's new rulers have described as a campaign against weapons and drug smuggling ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

Vladimir Putin offering refuge to ex-Syrian tyrant Bashar al-Assad in Moscow is undermining Russia’s talks to keep its forces ...

The new Syrian government in Damascus sent a convoy of vehicles from the General Security Department to Afrin, a historically ...

In an interview, Murhaf Abu Qasra, a onetime leader in Syria’s insurgency, discussed moves by authorities in Damascus to ...

The sudden collapse of the Syrian government and President Bashar Assad’s flight to Russia in December marked a dramatic ...

An offensive launched by Syria along its border with Lebanon on Thursday escalated into intense clashes between Syrian forces ...

Syria's interim Defence Ministry has said that its forces are continuing operations against remnants of the ousted Bashar al-Assad government and drug traffickers along the Syrian-Lebanese border.

The head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), a global non-proliferation agency, will meet ...

Syrian Army forces aligned with the new Syrian administration have entered areas of Hermel, Lebanon, sparking fierce clashes with Hezbollah fighters. For more stories from The Media Line go to ...