Syrian opposition says Russia withdrawal could lead to end of conflict, spokesperson said. Syria's opposition are "not against" direct talks with the country's government, RIA news agency quoted Salim al-Muslat, spokesman for the main Syrian opposition alliance in Geneva, as saying on...

Airstrikes by 11 Turkish warplanes in northern Iraq Monday are believed to have killed 45 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants, the armed forces said in a statement Tuesday. The military said the strikes by F-16 and F-4 jets, in the Qandil mountain area where the PKK has its main bases, also...

Senior Islamic State operative Abu Omar al-Shishani, who was wounded in a U.S. air strike last week in Syria, has died, CNN reported on Monday, citing two unnamed U.S. officials. Shishani, also known as Omar the Chechen and described by the Pentagon as the group's "minister of war," was...

President Vladimir Putin announced out of the blue on Monday that "the main part" of Russian armed forces in Syria will start to withdraw, telling his diplomats to step up the push for peace as U.N.-mediated talks resumed on ending the five-year-old war. Syria rejected any...