A week after Syria’s governemnt agreed to a cease-fire with rebel groups affecting the northwestern province of Idlib, air force jets hit multiple targets on Friday, humanitarian workers said, fueling international fears for millions of civilians crammed into the area. By early afternoon,...

Russia on Friday accused the UN of providing "false data" on the coordinates of civilian sites in Syria's Idlib, as outrage rises over the apparent bombardment of schools and hospitals in the area. The jihadist-run bastion of Idlib, the last major opposition stronghold in Syria, has faced...

Turkey says Kurdish fighters have attacked a Turkish base in a Turkish-controlled area in northern Syria, wounding two of its soldiers. Turkey's Defense Ministry says fighters of the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, attacked the base in Afrin with an anti-tank missile...

Russia hopes that an agreement can be reached soon under U.N. auspices on forming Syria’s new constitutional committee and that it can convene in Geneva as early as September, Moscow’s ambassador Gennady Gatilov said on Friday. Gatilov, speaking at a Geneva news briefing, said that he...