In the past week, the Pentagon has acknowledged that its footprint in Iraq and Syria is bigger than it has claimed for years ...

Iraq started on Thursday to send Syrian soldiers of deposed former leader Bashar al-Assad's army back to their homeland, ...

The number of US troops in Syria has regularly surged higher than the Pentagon has publicly disclosed since at least 2020, ...

Assad’s ouster has raised urgent questions about the 2,000 troops who serve as a bulwark against ISIS and Iran.

A Pentagon spokesman said the increase was unrelated to the fall of President Bashar al-Assad to rebel forces in early ...

"I believe there will be violent fighting, the end of which we do not know," a top Syrian Democratic Council official told ...

For much of the past decade, Assad’s regime, bolstered by unwavering support from Iran and Russia, brutally suppressed ...

The country is deeply divided along religious and ethnic lines, which makes continuing violence one likely scenario.

Blinken said he spoke to Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani about the situation in Syria after the Assad regime's ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Friday and met with Prime Minister Mohammed Shia ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced visit to Iraq Friday to meet with Prime Minister Mohammed Shia ...

With the fall of the Assad regime in Syria and an uncertain future, U.S. troops in the region must navigate a geopolitical ...