United Nations teams have deployed Sunday to the Syrian coast, where firefighters are battling wildfires for a fourth day.

Massive wildfires have torn through Syria’s coastal mountain region of Jabal Turkman since Thursday, destroying thousands of ...

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

ISTANBUL — Turkey sent two firefighting aircraft Saturday to help battle wildfires in neighboring Syria as Turkish ...

Syrian Civil Defense teams continued efforts on Saturday to contain wildfires that are sweeping through the Turkmen Mountains ...

A new wildfire has erupted in Greece prompting evacuations, while firefighters in Turkey pressed ahead with efforts to ...

Fires that have hit Turkey, Greece and Syria over the past week have been fueled by soaring temperatures, strong winds, and low humidity. In Turkey, they led to the evacuation of tens of thousands ...

Syria’s Civil Defence teams are battling wildfires sweeping through Syria, with the coastal region of Latakia among the worst hit.

Abdulkafi Kayal, spokesperson for the Syrian Civil Defense in Latakia, said that the fire has extended some 12.4 miles, blocking access roads and making movement difficult for emergency crews.

With man-made climate change increasing the likelihood and intensity of droughts and wildfires worldwide, Syria has been battered by heatwaves, low rainfall and major forest fires.

Fires flared on both sides of the Turkish-Syrian frontier on Friday, with a new blaze reported near the town of Dortyol in Turkey’s border province of Hatay — as Syrian crews struggled to contain ...