The U.S. Central Command is replacing some of its regular troops in northern Syria with employees of private military companies (PMCs), Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Wednesday at a news conference in Moscow. "The number of personnel of PMCs in Syria exceeds...

A blast killed six regime army soldiers in Daraa province Wednesday in a rare, deadly attack in the defeated cradle of the eight-year uprising, a monitoring group said. "The explosive device was aimed at a convoy transporting members of the Fourth Division" in the southern province of...

The Syrian regime is abusing a 2012 counter-terrorism law to punish the families of suspects by freezing their assets, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday, charging it amounted to "collective punishment". "By penalizing people solely on the basis of their family relationship with an accused...

Regime airstrikes on Tuesday killed nine civilians in rebel-held northwest Syria, the target of months of regime and Russian bombardment, a war monitor said. Three children were among the 12 killed outside Maaret al-Numan, a town located in a southern strip of Idlib province, said the...