The United States and its allies conducted 22 strikes against ISIS Thursday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement Friday. In Syria, three strikes in two cities destroyed an ISIS mortar position and two fighting positions. In Iraq, 19 strikes in seven cities targeted...

(Business Insider)- The Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah has seen between 1,300 and 1,500 of its fighters killed in battles in the Syrian civil war, which means that together with the wounded it has lost as much as a third of its fighting force, according to Israeli estimates....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Political Body of Western-backed Syrian National Coalition has recommended 8 of its members to join Opposition's negotiators team which is supposed to lead future peace talks with Bashar al-Assad regime, sources told Zaman al Wasl. The proposed list includes Hisham Marwa,...

Russia has made clear to Western nations that it has no objection to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stepping down as part of a peace process, in a softening of its publicly stated staunch backing of Assad ahead of talks in New York, diplomats said. Russia, like Iran, has been...