At least three Russians fighting alongside Syrian government forces were killed and several more wounded when a shell hit their position in the coastal province of Latakia, a senior pro-government military source said on Tuesday. If confirmed, the deaths which occurred on Monday night would...

U.S.-led forces conducted 15 airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq on Monday, eight of them near the contested Sinjar area, and two airstrikes in Syria, the U.S. military said. The Sinjar strikes destroyed 26 militant fighting positions, five vehicles, 10 assembly areas and three command and...

Rebels battling the Syrian army and its allies near Aleppo said on Monday they had received new supplies of U.S.-made anti-tank missiles from states opposed to President Bashar al-Assad since the start of a major government offensive last week. The rebels from three groups...

The Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union (PYD) plans to open a mission in Russia, a move that would anger Turkey which sees the party as a terrorist group, Russia's Kommersant newspaper reported on Tuesday. Leaders of the Kurdish group will hold consultations with the Russian foreign...