The country is experiencing its worst drought in decades, which has set the conditions for the blazes to scorch an area the ...

LATAKIA, Syria - For several days, Syria’s coastal province of Latakia has been grappling with relentless wildfires. Although ...

The mountainous coastal region in northwest Syria, particularly the northern rural areas of Latakia, is experiencing one of ...

Syrian firefighters are combating severe wildfires exacerbated by heavy winds and leftover war ordnance. Despite ...

The Jordan Armed Forces–Arab Army (JAF) has said that aircraft from the Royal Jordanian Air Force continued “intensive” firefighting operations on Tuesday in several areas across Syria, where ...

Syrian authorities said some 100 square kilometres (40 square miles) of forest had "turned to ash" in wildfires as ...

Swathes of forested area and farmland have burnt, some villages evacuated as fires raged, including near the Turkish border.

Firefighting efforts have been hampered by the presence of mines and unexploded ordnance left over from the civil war, as the country grapples with the worst drought in decades.

Syrian authorities said wildfires have turned 100 sq km (40 sq miles) of forest "to ash" in Latakia province, as Jordanian firefighters arrived Sunday to help battle blazes for a fourth day. Crews ...

Where does the Syrian crisis stand?Syria’s civil war continued unabated in late-2013 amid international debate on ... [PDF], agreed to in 2012, which calls for a cease-fire, the formation of ...

ISIS’s arrival in mid-2014 in Raqqa, Syria, and Mosul and Falluja in Iraq, changed the security landscape profoundly while at the same time suddenly enlarging the human crisis. As it fed off the chaos ...