From a Bond villain lair in the rugged heights overlooking Damascus, the all-seeing eye of a notorious Syrian military unit ...

NATO-member Turkey was a main backer of rebels who fought Bashar al-Assad for years and it has forged close ties with the new ...

LATAKIA, Syria (Reuters) - For years, soldiers from Russia's Hmeimim Air Base in Syria roamed freely through coastal cities.

Some restaurants and coffee shops in Syria were closed during the day as observant Muslims began fasting during the holy ...

More than 1,000 Syrians died in detention at a military airport on the outskirts of Damascus, killed by execution, torture or ...

Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Javier Assad (oblique) will not be ready by Opening Day. Assad was diagnosed with a mild ...

Assad's regime never recognised it and, despite his fall from power, its future remains uncertain. As well as more than a ...

Javier Assad won't be part of the Cubs' roster for the Tokyo Series or Opening Day against the Diamondbacks later this month.

When the Cubs signed Colin Rea to bolster their starting pitching depth, there appeared to be an outside chance for the ...

The snaking tunnels beneath Kobani hold no mysteries for Commander Zanarin Kobani of the YPJ, the women’s unit of the Kurdish ...

While the expectation is that Javier Assad will start pitching off a mound again this week, the Cubs may place the righty on ...

Nearly three months after Assad fled, much of Syria is suspended between relief at the dictatorship’s demise and anxiety over ...