Veteran prosecutor Carla del Ponte signed off from the United Nations Syria investigation on Monday by criticizing the U.N. Security Council and telling Syria’s ambassador his government had used chemical weapons. The former Swiss attorney general, who went on to prosecute war...

Opposition activists say Syrian government troops battling Daesh (ISIS) have crossed to the eastern bank of the Euphrates River in Deir al-Zor for the first time since they broke a siege on parts of the eastern city earlier this month. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human...

Washington and Moscow have held high-level talks aimed at shoring up military "deconfliction" zones in eastern Syria after Russia was accused of targeting US-backed forces battling the Islamic State group in an air strike, a top US general said Sunday. The Syrian Democratic Forces...

(Newsweek)- Russia’s Defence Ministry on Sunday rejected allegations it had bombed U.S.-backed militias in Syria, saying its planes only targeted Islamic State (ISIS) militants and that it had warned the United States well in advance of its operational plans.  U.S.-backed...