Firefighting efforts have been hampered by the presence of mines and unexploded ordnance left over from the civil war, as the country grapples with the worst drought in decades.

Former warlord Ghazwan Al Salmoni carved a niche in the Syrian civil war, commanding an abduction and ... whose Third Tank ...

Thousands of Syria’s Jews left in recent decades. But after Assad’s ouster and easing of sanctions, they can now reconnect ...