A fundraising page has been organized at for Brown Racing proprietors Chris and Jill Brown following their loss of six ...

LATAKIA, Syria — Some of Syria’s worst wildfires in years have been brought under control as of Sunday, according to the ...

Wildfires in northwestern Syria, which have burned vast tracts of forest and farmland and forced evacuations, have been brought under control after 10 days.

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari, who has died age 82 in a London clinic, was a former military ruler and self-styled ...

Syria’s civil defence services said that teams on the ground were working to cool down the affected areas while monitoring ...

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

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

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

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

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

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.