As Bashar al-Assad’s military collapsed late last year, the SNA seized the opportunity to strike against the SDF, forcing it ...

Turkey's allied forces have captured an entire underground 'city' in Manbij, previously controlled by Kurdish paramilitaries.

The Euphrates River is one of the most important water systems in recorded history. Located in Western Asia, at the very heart of the Middle East, the Euphrates-Tigris river system fed farmable ...

Clashes in Syria have increased at the Tishrin Dam, a strategic site on the Euphrates River around 30 miles south of the ...

Anadolu crew films US soldiers taking positions near Harbi Bridge, which connects 2 sides of Deir ez-Zor city, pointing their ...

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Tuesday that at least 11 civilians were killed in two separate attacks ...

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UN Humanitarians continue to voice their insecurity concerns in Syria's north and northeast, including attacks near a ...

Formed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and the Mediterranean Sea, this region gave rise to some of the world’s earliest civilizations. Until the 19th century, Western scholars believed that ...

The drought that ravaged Syria from 2006 to 2011 triggered significant rural-to-urban migration, displacing around 1.5 ...

The Sumerians of Mesopotamia are considered the world's oldest civilisation, dating back to around 4000 BCE. The Sumerians ...