(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters launched major attack on Free Syrian Army units based in the Syrian desert east of Damascus, using car bomb and heavy shelling, local monitor group said. Ahmed al-Abdo Forces, key unit in the Southern Front alliance, said it had thwarted the attack,...

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...