The United States and its allies on Wednesday targeted Islamic State with one air strike in Syria and another 21 in Iraq, the Combined Joint Task Force leading the operation said. In a statement released on Thursday, the task force said one strike near Mar'a, Syria destroyed two...

Hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria to join a major ground offensive in support of  Bashar al-Assad's government, Lebanese sources said on Thursday, a further sign of the rapid internationalization of a civil war in which every major country in the region has a...

 U.N. refugee agency UNHCR expects 1.4 million refugees to flee to Europe via the Mediterranean this year and next, it said in a revised appeal seen by Reuters Thursday, a sharp rise from initial estimates of 850,000. "UNHCR is planning for up to 700,000 people seeking safety and...

The commander of the YPG Syrian Kurdish militia said the country's civil war could continue for 10 years, in an interview published Thursday by monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Sipan Hemo, whose group has seized wide areas of territory from ISIS in northeast Syria this...