The National on MSN2h
The two lives of Syria's Sayyida Zaynab suburb
There are two versions of Sayyida Zaynab, the suburb south of Damascus and home to a shrine for a revered Muslim figure.One ...
US strike kills a senior official of an al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria
The airstrike in Syria's Idlib province killed a "senior finance and logistics official" from the militant group Hurras ...
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President Barzani calls for continued international support for Iraq, Syria amid ISIS threat
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani on Sunday expressed the need to maintain foreign troops in Iraq, Syria amid the ...
Syria could allow Russia to keep its bases, new defense minister says
In an interview, Murhaf Abu Qasra, a onetime leader in Syria’s insurgency, discussed moves by authorities in Damascus to ...
Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Jordan aim to jointly tackle Islamic State, Ankara says
Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Jordan will take steps toward jointly combating Islamic State in the region and they aim to hold a ...
In Syria, the fighting is over, but a resource-rich region is left in limbo
Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.
Al-Monitor on MSN1d
France tries five for kidnapping journalists in Syria
Five men went on trial in France on Monday charged with holding four French journalists hostage for the Islamic State ...
US tells UN: We cannot pay forever for Syria camps with Islamic State-linked prisoners
U.S. assistance for managing and securing camps in northeastern Syria with Islamic State-linked prisoners "cannot last ...
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How a Network of Amateur Sleuths Helps Rescue Women Kidnapped by ISIS
Now, more than half a decade since the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate in Syria and Iraq fell, nearly 2,600 Yazidis remain unaccounted for, according to Ms. Ibrahim’s nonprofit ...