Syria’s government has ordered soldiers to guard a mass grave created to conceal atrocities under Bashar al-Assad and has opened a criminal investigation, following a Reuters report that revealed a yearslong conspiracy by the fallen dictatorship to hide thousands of bodies on the remote desert site.

Intelligence files found in a Damascus prison complex reveal cases that led to brutal detentions; a wife records a husband.

The United States' latest coordinated strikes against ISIS targets comes as Washington signals sustained pressure on the terror group.

Jordan confirmed that its air force took part in the U.S. air strikes "targeting several ISIS positions in southern Syria."

U.S. troops remain deployed in Syria, Iraq, Somalia and Yemen under war authorities, conducting raids and airstrikes in conflicts most Americans have forgotten.

The IDF says reserve troops from the 55th Brigade have completed more than three months of operational activity in southern Syria and along the Golan Heights.

Two civilians were killed and eight were wounded by shelling in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, Syria’s state-run SANA news agency reported.

A deadly explosion struck the Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib Mosque in Homs, Syria, on Friday, killing at least eight people and injuring 18 others. The attack targeted the Alawite minority in the Wadi al-Dhahab neighbourhood during Friday prayers.