The Latest Breaking News from Syria

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vows that the country will start deporting criminals from Afghanistan and Syria again after a knife attack by an Afghan immigrant last week left one police officer dead and four more people injured

Holding a weapon in one hand and fixing her scarf with the other, Yasmine Youssef patrols one of northeast Syria's vast wheatfields, a vital source of income in the country's breadbasket.

The military says the assailant, injured in a gunfight, is a Syrian national.

Turkey's defense minister says plans by U.S.-backed Kurdish groups to hold local elections in northern Syria are “unacceptable" and a threat to Turkey's national security

US President Joe Biden told Qatar's emir Monday that Hamas was the only obstacle to a Gaza ceasefire deal with Israel, and urged him to press the militant group to accept it, the White House said. An Israeli government spokesperson had earlier quoted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu as saying that…

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Five years after the fall of the so-called Islamic State caliphate in Iraq and Syria, the EU's anti-terrorism coordinator sees a more diffuse threat, coming from many different directions and spreading online. This is what Bartjan Wegter calls "mutant jihadism". With FRANCE 24's Armen Georgian, he discusses Afghanistan, IS-KP (Islamic…

In August 2013, a chemical attack using sarin gas was perpetrated in Syria’s Ghouta region, northeast of Damascus, killing some 1,400 people. Attributed to the regime of Bashar al-Assad, the crime remains unpunished to this day. But Syrian refugees in Europe are fighting for justice. Activists, lawyers and witnesses have…

Turkey's president says his country won't hesitate to launch a new offensive in northern Syria if Kurdish groups there go ahead with plans to hold local elections

Turkey's President Erdogan warns of potential military action in northern Syria over Kurdish-led elections, citing threats to national security.

Learn about the recent Israeli airstrikes in Baniyas, Syria, and the ongoing conflict between Israel and Syria over Iran's influence and military confronta...