At least 13 people, including 5 children, have been killed in Russian and Syrian air strikes on northern province of Idlib, activists and a monitoring group said on Saturday. The Syrian network for Human Rights reported death of 11 people, including one civil defense soldier and a family of...

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has praised German Chancellor Angela Merkel for opening her country's doors to asylum seekers, but criticized several other European leaders for denying solidarity with refugees. “Both Europe and Turkey are facing a test in these days,” Davutoglu said...

Turkish coast guards have rescued a total of 412 refugees off the country's western and southern shores during the teams' search-and-rescue operations on Friday. A statement issued Saturday on the official website of the Turkish General Staff detailed Friday's search-and-rescue efforts carried...

Germany on Saturday celebrated 25 years since its joyful reunification, with its leaders urging the nation to muster the same strength and solidarity to face a record refugee influx. The silver anniversary of the day communist East Germany and the capitalist West reunited as one country comes...

A U.N. plan towards ending the civil war in Syria would not work in its current form, Syria's western-backed opposition and rebel groups said in a rare show of unity on Saturday, a day after the government said it was ready to take part in the initiative. In July, U.N. special envoy to Syria...

Russia's Air Force made over 20 flights in Syria in the past 24 hours and targeted nine Islamic State objects, Russian news agencies cited a Defense Ministry official as saying on Saturday. The Defense Ministry official, Igor Konashenkov, said Su-34 and Su-24M aircraft took part in...

Only one in 20 Russian air strikes in Syria are aimed at Islamic State targets, Britain's defense secretary said on Saturday, warning that Vladimir Putin was instead killing civilians to shore up President Bashar al-Assad. Russia bombed Syria for a third straight day on Friday,...

A Syrian Christian family targeted by a September bomb attack in Damascus flew into Paris on Friday to start a new life, roughly a year after they requested entry visas from the French authorities. Amid cackles of joy and relief, 15 family members embraced each other and the...

President Barack Obama on Friday vehemently rejected Russia's military actions in Syria as self-defeating and dismissed the idea that Moscow was strengthening its hand in the region. He vowed not to let the conflict become a U.S.-Russia "proxy war." At a White House news conference,...

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem on Friday questioned the value of political negotiations and said airstrikes against militants in his country are useless if they are not coordinated with his government. "Terrorism cannot be fought only from the air, and all of the previous operations...

Glasgow will become the first British city to accept Syrian refugees since the current crisis began with dozens set to arrive before Christmas. The city council has made an agreement with the Home Office to identify 63 people from refugee camps in Lebanon and Iraq. Families are expected to...

More than 100 people killed on Friday in double air strikes on northern city of Aleppo by Syrian regime and key ally Russia, activists said amid claims by state-run media that the deadly aerial attacks have targeted ISIS strongholds. Russian warplanes have mounted a new wave of air strikes...

Russia bombed Syria for a third day on Friday, mainly hitting areas held by rival insurgent groups rather than ISIS fighters it said it was targeting and drawing an increasingly angry response from the West. The U.S.-led coalition that is waging its own air war against ISIS called on the...

 ISIS attacked Syrian government-held areas in the eastern city of Deir al-Zor and an air base south of the city on Friday, Reuters said. Regime warplanes bombarded another area of the city and around the air base, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, a day after pro-Damascus...

Russian warplanes have mounted a new wave of air strikes since Thursday night in northwestern and western Syria, a Syrian military source and state TV said on Friday. The source said the 18 air strikes were in the provinces of Idlib, Hama and Aleppo and were against Islamic State...

Turkey and its partners in the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS called on Russia Friday to cease its attacks on the Syrian opposition and focus on fighting militants, expressing "deep concern" over Moscow's air strikes. In a joint statement with the United States, Britain, France, Germany and...

Russian airstrikes in Syria will last for three to four months and will intensify, a senior Russian lawmaker said Friday as President Vladimir Putin was due in Paris for talks. "There is always a risk of getting bogged down but in Moscow they're talking about three to four months of...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Francois Hollande were gearing up for talks on the Syrian conflict on Friday, as tensions rose after Moscow unleashed a fresh wave of bombing over Syrian soil. Russia says its airstrikes are against the Islamic State group (IS), and...

The United States and its allies on Wednesday targeted Islamic State with one air strike in Syria and another 21 in Iraq, the Combined Joint Task Force leading the operation said. In a statement released on Thursday, the task force said one strike near Mar'a, Syria destroyed two...

Hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria to join a major ground offensive in support of  Bashar al-Assad's government, Lebanese sources said on Thursday, a further sign of the rapid internationalization of a civil war in which every major country in the region has a...