Fatah Army in the northern province of Idlib has captured a strategic hill near Jisr al-Shughour town on Sunday, a move that makes rebels on the track to overrun Bashar al-Assad's hometown in the coastal region. The alliance of Islamist groups, who has slowed its progress in the last few weeks,...

The United States and its allies carried out 34 air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq on Friday, the U.S. military said. Various Islamic State targets near the city of Hasaka were hit in 12 of the 17 strikes in Syria, a military statement said on Saturday. The allied...

A Syrian regime airstrike on the northern Syrian town of al-Bab near Aleppo killed at least 23 people, including 3 children and 3 women, and wounded dozens on Saturday, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said as a barrel bomb pounded a crowded local market. Activists said the deadly attack on...

Lebanese militia group Hezbollah said on Friday that the Syrian army's resistance to recent large-scale rebel attacks had disproved predictions that President Bashar al-Assad's days were numbered. In a speech to mark the annual pro-Palestinian "Quds day", Lebanese Shi'ite...