Syria’s wildfires are the first major natural disaster since the country overthrew the al-Assad regime in December.

Iraq is sending firefighters, water tankers and other equipment to help battle forest blazes in coastal Syria, as a multinational effort to extinguish the flames enters a ninth day.

"Returning to Syria endangers my family. Human rights groups confirm it isn’t safe," said the father of three children, aged ...

After 14 years of brutal civil war and more than 7 million displaced, a family finally sets foot in a free Syria. Their return—after fleeing a dictatorship that silenced voices and tore lives apart—is ...