The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and its political arm the PYD will not be invited to planned peace talks in Kazakhstan, a PYD official said on Tuesday, an outcome that would leave a key player in the conflict off the negotiating table. Syria's government and rebel forces started a ceasefire...

 More than 20 civilians were killed in a B-52 strike carried out by the US on the northern Idlib province in Syria on January 3, according to Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov. Gerasimov slammed the Western coalition in Syria for failing to achieve “any meaningful...

The bodies of two Turkish soldiers who had been missing in Syria for more than a month have been returned to Turkey, local media reported Tuesday. Turkey has been fighting ISIS in Syria since August, but the battle to take town of Al-Bab has proved tough and casualties there are on the rise....

Industrial action brought fresh disruption for travellers in Britain Tuesday as rail workers and airline cabin crew walked off the job, the day after a major strike on the London Underground. British Airways was forced to cancel 48 flights over two days at London's Heathrow airport after...