Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

Residents, many of whom have returned to homes that are little more than ... new Syrian government would take responsibility for ISIS prisoners. All that would allow the U.S. to cut ties with ...

The Kurdish forces guarding ISIS ... their homes and families,” he said. The Russian detainee also expressed regret and said he hoped President Vladimir Putin would forgive him. The prison ...

Syria’s status as a classic Middle East tourist definition was shredded by civil war. Visitors are now beginning to return, ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

At a prison in the city of Hasakah, where some 4,500 IS fighters, including many foreigners, are incarcerated, a Kurdish officer predicted that the group known as ISIS would try again.