A Syrian activist group monitoring the civil war says Syrian rebels who were amassed at the Turkish border have crossed into Syria as part of a Turkey-backed operation to liberate an Islamic State-controlled border town. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the fighters were preceded...

Turkish special forces units and jets supported by warplanes from the U.S.-led coalition launched an operation in northern Syria on Wednesday to wipe out Islamic State militants along the border with Turkey, Turkish officials said. The Turkish army began firing artillery rounds into the Syrian...

The Russian military said on Monday its aircraft operating from an Iranian air base to conduct strikes in Syria had completed their tasks, but left open the possibility of using the Hamadan base again if circumstances warranted. Iran's Foreign Ministry said Russia had stopped using the base...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian resistance have killed more than 300 regime troops this week as Bashar al-Assad's forces press to recapture a military complex they lost two week ago in the battleground city of Aleppo, rebel commander said on Tuesday. Captain Naji al-Mustafa, senior commander in Suqour...