( Reuters )- The United States fired dozens of cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase on Friday from which it said a deadly chemical weapons attack was launched this week, an escalation of the U.S. military role in Syria that swiftly drew sharp criticism from Russia. Two U.S. warships fired 59...

 The Syrian opposition welcomed U.S. strikes against a Syrian government airbase on Friday and called for more after two American warships fired dozens of missiles at the airfield in a sharp escalation of the U.S. military role in Syria. The Syrian opposition has long been critical of...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that "something should happen" with President Bashar al-Assad after a deadly poison gas attack in Syria, as the Pentagon and the White House studied military options. Facing his biggest foreign crisis since taking office in January, Trump suggested...

( Reuters )- A U.S.-Syrian ISIS militant who helped run an online media campaign disseminating extremist material to sympathizers around the world from its self-declared caliphate has been killed in Syria, the group said. Ahmad Abousamra was killed in early January when a missile struck a...