Syrian government forces launch a rocket towards Kurdish forces in the Tabqa region of northern Syria on Saturday...

Members of the Kurdish forces gather at the entrance to the city of Tabqa in the northern Syrian Raqa province, on Jan...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia` al-Sudani speaks as he inaugurates the Iraq International Qur`an Recitation and Memorization Competition in Baghdad, Iraq, on January 17, 2026...

A U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle taxis at a base in the U...

Members of the US-backed Kurdish-led so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) standing gaurd in the capital city of Hasakah Governorate in the far north-east corner of Syria, December 11, 2024...

US President Donald Trump participates in a meeting with leaders of the steel industry at the White House March 1, 2018 in Washington, DC...

The U.S. has carried out what it called "large-scale strikes" against ISIS in Syria, U...

An Israeli army tank crosses into the so-called buffer zone near the Quneitra checkpoint in southwestern Syria, close to the border with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights...

Fatima al-Zahra Abu Sheikh, 4, was wounded when clashes broke out between Hay`at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and Kurdish fighters in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, on Tuesday...

Royal Air Force Typhoon jets joined French aircraft in a joint strike on Syria...

Protesters from the Alawite religious minority demonstrate two days after a bomb in an Alawite mosque in Homs killed eight people and wounded 18 during Friday prayers, in Latakia, Syria`s coastal region, on Sunday...

Iran`s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei The Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned a terrorist attack on worshippers at the Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (AS) Mosque in Syria`s Homs Province that left many dead and injured during Friday prayers...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, left, and his Syrian counterpart Asaad al-Shibani hold a joint news conference today after their meeting in Damascus, Syria...

Israeli troops move on the Syrian side of the border near the Druze village of Majdal Shams, in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights...

The U.S. military has launched a large-scale strike against Islamic State group infrastructure and weapons sites in Syria, officials said Friday, following an attack on U...

Tribal and Bedouin fighters deploy in western Sweida during clashes with Druze gunmen, July 19, 2025...

President Donald Trump said Saturday that "there will be very serious retaliation" after two U...

US soldiers patrol in Syria`s northeastern city Qamishli, in the Hasakeh province, mostly controlled by Kurdish-led and so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), on January 9, 2025...

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has strongly criticized US envoy Tom Barrack for making remarks in which he suggested that Lebanon could be annexed to Syria, calling the comments a "major mistake...

Israeli occupations forces are seen during a ground incursion into the town of Khan Arnabeh in the province of Quneitra, southwestern Syria, on December 9, 2025...

Former Israeli ambassador to the US, Michael Herzog (L), welcomes former US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, upon arrival at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, occupied Palestine, October 12, 2023...

Syria`s self-proclaimed president Abu Mohammed al-Jolani shakes hands with Russia`s President Vladimir Putin, left, during a meeting in Moscow, Russia, on October 15, 2025...

The Israeli strikes target the outskirts of the Syrian capital of Damascus on January 29, 2024...

In this file picture, US soldiers walk while on patrol by the Suwaydiyah oil fields in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah...

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani (Photo by Tasnim news agency) The foreign ministry spokesman says Iran’s recent strikes on positions held by terrorists in neighboring countries conveyed a clear message to those who had to get it...

Security and emergency personnel deploy around a building destroyed in an Israeli strike in Damascus on January 20, 2024...

The photo shows the scene of a building targeted by an Israeli strike in the Syrian capital of Damascus on January 20, 2024...

Amir Saeid Iravani, Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations Iran’s UN envoy has defended the country’s recent anti-terror operations targeting the facilities belonging to Takfiri terrorists in Syria and Israel-linked anti-Iranian terror groups in Iraq...

Iran’s Foreign Ministry The Iranian Foreign Ministry says the strikes conducted by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) against terrorists’ positions in Syria and an Israeli espionage center in Iraq were part of the just punishment against violators of Iran’s security after a deadly terrorist attack hit the city of Kerman...

Iran’s veteran military advisor in Syria, Seyyed Razi Mousavi A veteran member of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), who was serving as a military advisor in Syria, has been martyred in an Israeli airstrike in the Sayyeda Zeinab neighborhood of Damascus...

Panah Taqizadeh (L) and Mohammad Ali Ataee Shoorcheh...

File photo of United States’ forces in Syria Amid regional outrage over the United States’ heavy support for the Israeli regime’s ongoing onslaught against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the US says its forces and their allies have been attacked at least 16 times across Iraq and neighboring Syria this month...

This file picture shows a Cham Wings Airlines Airbus A320-211 at Aleppo International Airport, Syria, on June 15, 2022...

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (L) attends a press conference with his Syrian counterpart Faisal al-Mekdad, in the Syrian capital of Damascus on October 13, 2023...

A Syrian soldier stands guard on a main road leading to the town of Rastan in the central Homs province...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan (Photo by Reuters) Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says all groups and facilities in Iraq and Syria that are affiliated to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group are legitimate targets, following a recent bomb attack on a government building in the capital Ankara...

This file photo shows the immediate aftermath of an Israeli missile attack against Syria’s capital city of Damascus...

US troops walk past a Turkish military vehicle during a joint patrol with Turkish forces in the Syrian village of al-Hashishah on the outskirts of Tal Abyad town along the border with Turkey, on September 8, 2019...

Amir Saeid Iravani, Iran’s permanent ambassador to the United Nations Iran’s UN ambassador has said the Israeli regime’s recurrent violence against Syria serves as a smokescreen for Tel Aviv’s daily aggression targeting the Palestinians...

Chinese President Xi Jinping welcomes Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to a welcoming banquet, ahead of the opening ceremony of the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Friday, September 22, 2023...

FILE PHOTO: CH-47 Chinook helicopters in northeastern Syria...

Much of Raqqa, Syria, was destroyed by Daesh Takfiri terrorist group when it was taken back in 2017...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (C) speaks during a ceremony of awarding Syria’s ambassador to Caracas Khalil Bitar the Order of Francisco de Miranda First Class for the end of his mission on January 18, 2022...

Iran’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Zahra Ershadi An Iranian envoy to the United Nations has raised concerns about the possession of chemical weapons by the United States and Israel, describing the pair as the main obstacles to the elimination of such arms across the world...

Smoke rises from a fire in a container storage area, after Syrian state media reported an Israeli airstrike on the Syrian port of Lattakia, in this handout picture released by SANA on December 7, 2021...

A US airstrike seen on Ain al-Arab, seen from the Turkish-Syria border, October 13, 2014...

Iraqi forces and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters take part in an intensive security deployment after the Daesh Takfiri terrorists took over the previous day Luhaiban village in Kirkuk, December 6, 2021...

Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin attends a NATO meeting at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on October 21, 2021...

In this file picture, Syria’s air defenses intercept and destroy a missile launched by Israeli military aircraft from the direction of Lebanon and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights towards Damascus...

A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on August 20, 2021 shows a light spot over the capital Damascus on August 19, 2021...