An American who turned up in Syria says he was detained after crossing into the country by foot on a Christian pilgrimage seven months ago. Travis

An American who turned up in Syria says he was detained after crossing into the country by foot on a Christian pilgrimage seven months ago. Travis Timmerman appears to have been among thousands of people released from the country’s notorious prisons after rebels reached Damascus over the weekend,

Since accepting the offer to become the head coach of the University of North Carolina football team, Bill Belichick has been busily working to hit the ground running in his new home. Belichick ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — An American who turned up in Syria says he was detained after crossing into the country by foot on a Christian pilgrimage seven months ago. Travis Timmerman appears to ...

The US is set to remove a $10 million bounty on Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the opposition group that spearheaded an offensive against Bashar Assad's Syrian government forces.

What began as protests against President Assad’s regime in 2011 quickly escalated into a full-scale war between the Syrian government—backed by Russia and Iran—and anti-government rebel ...

Bill Belichick has agreed to a three-year deal to take over as the head coach at North Carolina, according to multiple reports Wednesday night. According to The Athletic, the deal reportedly could be worth up to $30 million.

Christopher Wray, the F.B.I. director, told bureau employees today that he would resign before Donald Trump took office in January. In his address, Wray said he believed the move was “the best way to avoid dragging the bureau deeper into the fray.”

Setting all that aside - the eye-popping contract, the significant other nearly a half-century his junior and a succession plan which resembles those employed in North Korea and Syria, at least ...

Top U.S. officials are in Syria making the first face-to-face contact with rebel groups that took over the country in a lightning offensive earlier this month, their mission aimed at searching for

With Syria’s long civil war over and many countries hoping that Syrian refugees return home, the path forward is not so simple. Syria still lacks many basic resources and poverty is high. David Miliband,

The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said its forces had conducted an airstrike that killed ISIS leader Abu Yusif in eastern Syria. One other ISIS operative was also killed in the strike that ...