Turkey has so far detained 573 people for social media posts and protests criticizing its military offensive in Syria, the government said Monday. The crackdown, which has extended to the national medical association, has deepened concerns about free speech under President Recep...

At least 83 children were killed in Middle East war zones in January, most of them in Syria, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF said Monday, vowing their voices "will never be silenced." "They were killed in ongoing conflicts, suicide attacks or frozen to death as they fled active war zones,"...

Russia has ordered its warplanes in Syria to fly higher to avoid being shot down by shoulder launched anti-aircraft missiles after one of its jets was shot out of the sky on Saturday, the Izvestia daily reported Monday. The reported policy change came after Syrian rebels shot...

MOSCOW- The Kremlin said Monday that shoulder-launched missiles obtained and used by rebels in Syria were a huge danger to all governments after a Russian warplane was shot down there at the weekend. Russia's Defense Ministry has said that the aircraft, a SU-25, was downed in Syria's...