Russia should abandon its support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after his repeated use of chemical weapons and join the United States to map out a peaceful future for Syria, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday. Tillerson's comments came an hour before he flew to...

G7 foreign ministers have failed to agree on whether fresh sanctions should be imposed on Syrian President Bashar Assad or his ally Russia, Italy's Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano said Tuesday. "At the moment there is no consensus on new sanctions as an effective instrument," he said at the...

G7 foreign ministers insist there can be no peace solution in war-torn Syria with President Bashar Assad in power, France's Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Tuesday. The top diplomats, meeting as U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson readies for crunch talks in Moscow, were agreed...

The Iraqi military says ISIS has lost more than three-fourths of the territory it seized when it swept across the country in the summer of 2014. Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool, a military spokesman, says the extremist group currently controls less than 30,000 square kilometers (12,000 sq. miles) in...