The US military says it has killed the leader of ISIL (ISIS) group in Syria in a drone strike outside Jandaris, northwest Syria, with another senior ISIL official “seriously injured”. Maher al-Agal, one of the top five ISIL leaders was killed, said US Central Command (CENTCOM) on Tuesday...

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees refuses to send Syrian refugees back to their country from Lebanon, a Lebanese minister has said, in an official response to a plan announced by a cabinet minister earlier this month. Minister of the Displaced in Lebanon’s caretaker government, Issam...

UNITEDNATIONS – A U.N. Security Council mandate for U.N. aid deliveries to some 4 million people in Syria from Turkey expired on Sunday as diplomats struggled to find a deal with Russia, which traded barbs with the United States over the renewal of the operation. Ireland and Norway are...

The last aid deliveries from Turkey to Syrians in the rebel-held northwest took place on Friday, after the U.N. Security Council failed to extend humanitarian aid for another year. Almost all Council members favored a year-long extension, but Russia demanded a six-month renewal, with a new...