Syria's cessation of hostilities is open-ended in the view of the United Nations and the major powers, U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said Wednesday, brushing off a widespread perception that the truce needed renewing after two weeks. De Mistura plans to launch substantive peace talks on...

At least 250,000 Syrian children are living under siege, with many forced to eat animal feed or leaves to survive, Save the Children said Wednesday, as the war's fifth anniversary looms. "They and their families are cut off from the outside world, surrounded by warring groups that illegally use...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces backed by U.S. air strikes have pressed more advances against the Islamic State group in northeastern Hasaka province, activists said on Tuesday. The YPG-led alliance has encircled ISIS fighters in Markada town, the last remaining ISIS...

A red-bearded Islamic State commander described by American officials as the group's de facto minister of war may have been killed in an air strike in Syria on Friday by the U.S.-led coalition, several U.S. officials said on Tuesday. Abu Omar al-Shishani, also known as Omar the...