Clashes in Syria have increased at the Tishrin Dam, a strategic site on the Euphrates River around 30 miles south of the Turkish border controlled by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces. The ...

HIRRI, Syria — Mohammad Khalawi explains the devastation of Syria’s Deir al-Zour province through the scars left by the many conquerors who passed through during 13 years of civil war. It was ...

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) successfully defended against multiple offensives by the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) aimed at recapturing SDF-controlled territory on ...

By early 2019, the Islamic State was largely defeated as the SDF took its last holdouts near the Euphrates River. Thousands of IS detainees and their families ended up in camps and detention centers ...

Amid reports of clashes in northern Syria, Turkish-backed fighters are facing off against the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led forces near the border town of Kobani and the Tishrin dam on the Euphrates River.

Further east, U.S. forces on the Euphrates River are working with the Syrian Democratic Forces. The SDF is made up of Kurds , whom Israeli officials also say they will support .

The division runs along the line of the Euphrates River, Syria’s main waterway. East of the river, the area is administered by the US-aligned, Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

Gen. Mazloum Abdi, the commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces, said the Turkish military continue to attack his Kurdish forces, despite a U.S. brokered ceasefire deal.

The U.S.-Syria relationship has never been particularly friendly. The United States severed diplomatic relations in 1967 during the Arab-Israeli war, and placed Syria on its list of state sponsors ...

Trump Meets Syria’s President: President Trump’s conversation with President Ahmed al-Shara, who once led a branch of Al Qaeda, was the first time in 25 years that the leaders of the two ...

After Bashar al-Assad's ouster, there are questions about the fate of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the U.S.-backed Kurdish coalition that currently controls a third of Syrian territory.