JOHNSTON, Iowa -- (Iowa State Capital Bureau) -- The five Iowa National Guard soldiers ambushed Saturday in Syria were among an estimated 250 serving in that country, Iowa Army National Guard Major General Stephen Osborn said Saturday evening during a news conference at Camp Dodge in Johnston.

A former leader of Al Qaeda has convinced Washington that he’s a liberal reformer. Now comes the hard part of following through.

Two soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed while supporting counterterror operations, the Pentagon said. They are the first U.S. casualties in Syria since the fall of the dictator Bashar al-Assad.

What is happening in Syria? When the civil war ended in Syria in 2024, the country entered into a period of transition and recovery. Nearly a million former refugees have returned to Syria, and 1.9 million internally displaced people have gone back to ...

Syria's new government faces accusations of extremism as U.S. mediates complex negotiations between Damascus and Jerusalem authorities.

Syrian transitional authorities have taken positive steps on justice, transparency and rights but failed to prevent continued violence and atrocities.

The Syrian government deployed its forces in the Druze-majority city of Sweida, in a bid by the Islamist authorities to extend their power to the area controlled by local armed groups. Why did authorities take this major step, and what could follow?

As hostilities in Syria roll on unabated, the civilian casualties rise because of combat operations in urban areas and execution-style killings. In response, calls for U.S. military intervention of one sort or another to aid the opposition increase, while ...

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On the anniversary of the fall of Syria's dictator, the country is at a crucial juncture. There have been important achievements in areas like foreign policy but at the same time, many ordinary Syrian