An attack on Syrian regime security forces in the central city of Homs on Saturday killed at least 14 people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. The sound of gunfire and explosions had been heard since early in the day and those killed included a senior officer, the...

The White House has blocked several major news outlets from covering its press briefing. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Friday hand selected news outlets to participate in an off-camera “gaggle” with reporters inside his West Wing office instead of the James S Brady Press...

U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura handed working papers focused on procedural issues to delegations at Syrian peace talks on Friday, but there appeared little prospect of the opposing sides meeting directly soon. Opposing sides in the war came face-to-face at the U.N. for the first time in...

A car bomb in a village near al-Bab in Syria struck Syrian rebels fighting ISIS early Friday, killing at least 45 people and wounding dozens more, activists and Zaman al-Wasl reporter said. The Turkey-backed rebels Thursday drove ISIS from al-Bab, the extremist group's last significant...