U.S. President Barack Obama will overhaul Washington's approach to supporting Syrian rebel forces following this year's deeply troubled launch of a U.S. military training program, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Friday. Carter hinted the new approach would focus more on enabling forces...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Zaman Al Wasl has been informed by sources within the National Coalition for the revolutionary forces opposition that a breach of the statement issued by the political body of the coalition and the fighting groups on ground in regard to rejecting the four working...

Islamic State fighters have seized Syrian villages on the outskirts of Aleppo from rival insurgent fighters, a monitoring group said on Friday, despite Russian air strikes that Moscow says have targeted the militant group. Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps said separately one of...

An Iranian Revolutionary Guards general has been killed near Aleppo, where he was advising the Syrian army on their battle against ISIS fighters, the guards said in a statement Friday. General Hossein Hamedani was killed late Thursday, the statement said. Iran is the main regional ally of...