The U.S. military has assessed that the type of Russian aircraft in Syria is consistent with "force protection," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday. "For the moment it is the judgment of our military and experts that the level and type represents basically force protection,"...

 Al Jabha Al Shamiya, coalition of several rebel groups, has freed a British woman and her five children who were kidnapped in the country, delivering them to British embassy through an American mediator, source in the group's media office told Zaman al-Wasl. The statement by 'The...

The European Union is groping for ways to persuade Turkey to do more to keep Syrian refugees on its territory and stop them flooding into Europe, amid deep mutual suspicion between Brussels and Ankara. As a bitterly divided EU struggles to cope with hundreds of thousands of people...

A car bomb exploded Tuesday in the central city of Homs, killing at least one person and wounding 12 others in a neighborhood seen as a home of loyalists of the Bashar Assad. The rigged vehicle exploded among residential buildings in al-Zahra neighborhood, an area dominated by Alawites, the...