Jordan's mediation has succeeded in getting Syrian rebel negotiators back to the table with Russian officers over a final deal that ends the fighting and brings state control over Daraa province, a Syrian opposition spokesman said. Ibrahim al Jabawi said the two sides were expected to...

Dark clouds of smoke rose over Syrian rebel-held areas near the border with Jordan on Thursday as Bashar Assad's Russian allies unleashed heavy air strikes and regime forces launched ground assaults. Assad aims to recapture the entire southwest including the frontiers with the...

The Islamic State group says the son of its top leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed fighting Syrian regime forces. The announcement of the death of the al-Baghdadi's young son appeared on the group's social media accounts late Tuesday. It included a picture of a young boy...

Russian air strikes against rebels in southern Daraa province resumed Wednesday, residents and an activist group said, after a rebel said talks to restore regime rule there peacefully had failed. The air strikes targeted the towns of Tafas, northwest of the provincial capital Daraa, and...