The U.S. and Russian militaries are finalizing a memorandum of understanding that sets out basic air safety procedures in the skies above Syria, a U.S. official said after the latest round of talks between the former Cold War foes on Wednesday. Russia's entry into Syria's civil...

A Russian fighter jet came into close proximity with a U.S. air force jet over Syria on Oct. 10 to identify it, "not to scare it", Russia's state ITAR-TASS news agency quoted the defense ministry as saying on Wednesday. The ministry said its SU-30CM jet was within 2-3 kilometres of the U.S....

The United States and its allies carried out 18 airstrikes on ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria on Tuesday, the Joint Command Task Force said on Wednesday. Sixteen of the attacks were in Iraq, hitting tactical units, vehicles, fighting positions, weapons, buildings and an explosives cache near...

Support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives has dropped to 38 percent, its lowest level since June 2014, as a dispute in her bloc over how to deal with a record inflow of refugees takes its toll, a poll showed on Wednesday. Merkel and Horst Seehofer, the leader of her...

China said on Wednesday it had no plans to send its military to Syria to fight with Russian forces after reports in overseas media that it was planning to do so. Chinese media has picked up Russian and Middle Eastern news reports that China would fight alongside Russia in Syria, and that...

Two senior officers from Iran's Revolutionary Guards were killed fighting Islamic State militants in Syria, Iran's Tasnim news agency reported, ahead of a planned offensive by Syria's army backed by Tehran. Major General Farshad Hasounizadeh and Brigadier Hamid Mokhtarband, commanders in...

(Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) The Democratic Union Party (PYD) has since the beginning of the Syrian revolution denied coordination with the Syrian regime in fighting the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and other opposition factions, then the Islamic State (ISIS). It...

ISIS’ spokesman confirmed Tuesday the killing of the militant organization’s second in command in a U.S. airstrike earlier this year. “America is rejoicing over the killing of Abu Mutaz al-Qurashi and considers this a great victory,” Abu Mohammad al-Adnani said in an audio recording posted...

 The Syrian army and allied Iranian and Hezbollah forces are preparing for a ground offensive against insurgents in the Aleppo area backed by Russian air strikes, two senior regional officials familiar with the plans said on Tuesday. The offensive would expand on a ground attack...

Syrian regime air force raided a marketplace in the embattled Eastern Ghouta district near Damascus, killing 14 people and wounding dozens, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said14 civilians were killed in Ein Tarma town east of Damascus when regime warplanes hit the...

Insurgents in Syria are deploying more men and weapons, including significant quantities of anti-tank missiles, to resist ground attacks by the Syrian army and its allies, backed by Russian air strikes, rebels and a monitoring group said on Tuesday. With help from Lebanon's...

EU border agency Frontex said on Tuesday that 710,000 migrants entered the European Union in the first nine months of this year, compared to only 282,000 in all of 2014. The Warsaw-based agency released the latest figures a day after the UN refugee agency said the EU's new relocation...

At least 27 people have been killed Tuesday in Aleppo and Damascus provinces due to regime and Russian air strikes in a fiercest aerial campaign on rebel-held areas for months, activists and a monitoring group said. 13 people have been killed in Darret Ezzah and Hayan towns near the northern...

Syrian rebels based in Damascus' Eastern Ghouta suburbs have fired two shells at the Russian embassy in the capital as scores of pro-regime supporters gathered outside the compound to thank Moscow for its intervention in Syria, AP reported An Associated Press reporter was outside the embassy on...

Amnesty International on Tuesday accused a Syrian Kurdish militia supported by the United States of committing war crimes by driving out thousands of non-Kurdish civilians and demolishing their homes. The London-based rights watchdog documented cases in more than a dozen...

The head of Syria's Nusra Front, an offshoot of al Qaeda, urged insurgents on Monday to escalate attacks on the strongholds of President Bashar al Assad's minority Alawite sect in retaliation for what he said was the indiscriminate killing of Sunni Muslims by invading Russians....

US-led coalition forces have parachuted ammunition to rebels fighting Islamic State jihadists in northern Syria, a US military spokesman said Monday. The move follows the Pentagon's announcement last week that it would pause a program to train moderate rebels, and instead focus efforts...

The U.N. refugee agency chief questioned on Monday the European Union's strategy of building more camps in Turkey to stem the flow of refugees into Europe, saying it would be more effective if host countries allowed refugees to work. The EU has pledged at least 1 billion euros...

Controversial Egyptian television anchor Ahmed Moussa is known to throw caution — and sometimes facts — to the wind. To the amusement of his many critics online, his latest on-air misstep was no exception. During his most recent show, Moussa sang the praises of the Russian military, which began...

Local activists  said rebels have retaken Kafer Nabuda town on Monday noon, thwarting Pro-regime forces including the Lebanese group Hezbollah who captured earlier the southern part of town in  in Hama province in western Syria. Russian jets carried out...