U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says the shootdown of a Russian military aircraft by Syrian forces complicates relations between President Bashar Assad and the Russian government but has "no effect whatever" on the U.S. campaign to defeat Islamic State fighters in Syria. Mattis...

The U.N. special envoy for Syria is calling on Russia, Syria and Israel "to refrain from military actions" following the downing of a Russian military aircraft. Staffan de Mistura told the U.N. Security Council at the start of a meeting on Syria that new military action "would only...

Israel's military Tuesday disputed Russia's assertion that it used one of its aircraft as cover while it carried out a strike in Syria, leading to it accidentally being shot down. "During the strike against the target in Latakia, the Russian plane that was then hit was not within the...

Germany's foreign minister is welcoming a deal between Turkey and Russia to create a demilitarized zone in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib. Speaking in Romania on Tuesday, Heiko Maas said "whatever helps avoid a humanitarian disaster in Idlib is good." Maas cautioned that...