Swathes of forested area and farmland have burnt, some villages evacuated as fires raged, including near the Turkish border.

Welcome back to Al-Monitor Israel.Israeli officials are divided over whether to seize the moment and pursue a security ...

The Trump administration's May 2025 announcement in Riyadh, and subsequent executive order in June, lifting all sanctions on ...

Dozens of Syrian Alawite women are missing — thought to have been abducted or worse. Motives behind the suspected abductions ...

Syria's Latakia faces historic wildfires - 100km² burned, 5,000+ displaced. "Nothing left but ash" as flames destroy villages. Civil Defense battles fires amid landmines & drought. EU aid requested as ...

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy has met with Syria’s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa in Damascus marking the restoration of relations between the two countries after years of tension.

Helicopters bearing Turkish flags were flying over the forested region of Qastal Maaf, close to the Turkish border, ...

The world experienced over 60 armed conflicts in 2024, a “historically high” number according to scholars in the Department ...

ISTANBUL -- Turkey sent two firefighting aircraft Saturday to help battle wildfires in neighboring Syria as Turkish ...

The fall of Syria’s dictatorship last year brought the end of a long and bloody civil conflict — but no quick relief to ...

The UK has already lifted a number of sanctions against Syria since the fall of Bashar al Assad's regime, and has suggested ...

United Nations teams have deployed Sunday to the Syrian coast, where firefighters are battling wildfires for a fourth day.