The government of  Bashar al-Assad and rebel groups accepted a plan for a cessation of hostilities to begin on Saturday and the United States warned it would be hard to hold the country together if the fighting did not stop. With hostilities reported on several fronts,...

Islamic State fighters have tightened their grip on a Syrian regime supply route to Aleppo on Tuesday as the army battled to retake the road as part of its campaign to seize the city, Reuters reported. The Islamic State assault has targeted a desert road which the...

The Syrian regime said on Tuesday it accepted a halt to "combat operations" that does not include the Islamic State group, the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, or groups connected to it, in line with a U.S.-Russian plan. It said it would coordinate with Russia to decide which groups and areas...

 Syrian regime says accepts halt to combat operations on basis that military efforts continue against ISIS, Nusra: statement