Islamic State on Thursday stormed main gas plant in Homs province by grad missiles, leaving huge damage in the main gas supply of regime-controlled city, well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl. Ebla gas plant, 45 km (30 miles) east Homs, feeds power plants of the city by 2 million cubic...

Syria's foreign minister said on Friday it was too early to hold another United Nations-backed peace conference on Syria, indicating the dim prospects for diplomacy as a U.N. envoy wraps up three months of consultations on the war. Walid al-Moualem also reiterated his...

The United States and its allies staged 27 air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq on Thursday, the coalition leading the military operation said in a statement. Six of the eight air strikes in Syria hit near al Hasaka, striking five units of fighters,...

Turkish warplanes pounded Islamic State targets in Syria and police detained hundreds of suspected militants across Turkey on Friday, a sign that Ankara may have shed its hesitancy in taking a front-line role against jihadist fighters. Turkey has long been a reluctant partner in...