According to Syria’s SANA news agency, the convoy is heading to the Baniyas refinery located on Syria’s Mediterranean coast ...

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Previously a major trade route between Iraq and Syria, the crossing was closed after the emergence of the ISIS terrorist group. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Dozens of tanker trucks carrying Iraqi oil began crossing into Syria on Monday through the recently reopened Rabia–Yarubiyah ...

Iraq has begun exporting crude using tanker trucks through Syria, its oil ministry says, more than a month into a war that has wrought havoc on energy markets. A founding member o ...

Iraq rerouted oil exports through Syria, reducing reliance on the Strait of Hormuz. Closure of Bab el-Mandeb Strait by April ...

Around 900 Syrian refugees have returned from Iraq to Syria since the beginning of 2026, the United Nations refugee agency ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. military has completed the transfer of thousands of Islamic State group detainees from Syria to Iraq, where they are expected to stand trial in the future, the U.S. Central ...

BAGHDAD — Inside a heavily guarded detention facility in Baghdad, men from scores of different countries and nationalities were brought one after another into interrogation rooms and questioned by ...

BAGHDAD — The decision to move prisoners of the Islamic State group from northeast Syria to detention centers in Iraq came after a request by officials in Baghdad that was welcomed by the U.S.-led ...