Cubs non-roster invitee Brandon Birdsell is also dealing with an injury, manager Craig Counsell announced Monday.

Finding common ground with Turkey will be critical to Syria’s transition. Security continues to deteriorate in northeast ...

The US-trained Syrian Free Army helped clear unexploded ordnance and provided support to local Syrians in continued ...

Chicago Cubs pitchers Javier Assad (oblique) and Brandon Birdsell (lat, shoulder) are both dealing with injuries, according ...

Syria's new authorities have accused Lebanon's Hezbollah of launching attacks on the border and sponsoring drug smuggling ...

Since the fall of longtime ruler Assad in December, Syria's authorities have dissolved the former military and security ...

Syrians are once again picnicking and smoking shisha amid the ruins of ancient Palmyra, once desecrated by jihadists but still awe-inspiring, and open to the public following the overthrow of ...

The Cubs bolstered their rotation depth in the offseason and apparently will need it early in camp, as one of their starters ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

Assad is dealing with oblique soreness and will undergo imaging Monday, Meghan Montemurro of the Chicago Tribune reports. It's not clear when Assad was injured, but the tweak is bad enough that he's ...

The war in Ukraine has foreclosed on options and blunted Russian action around the world.