President Bashar al-Assad was out of step with the views of his main ally, Russia, when he said he planned to fight on until he re-established control over all of Syria, Russia's envoy to the United Nations was quoted as saying on Thursday. In the first public sign of cracks in...

The United Nations plans to make its first air drops of food aid in Syria, to Deir al-Zor, a town of 200,000 besieged by Islamic State militants, the chair of a U.N. humanitarian task force said on Thursday. U.N. aid agencies do not have direct access to areas held by Islamic...

Turkish warplanes bombed camps belonging to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq late on Wednesday, security sources said, following a car bomb attack in Ankara that killed 28 people. Turkey's CNN Turk television said a group of 60-70 PKK militants, including senior...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A rebel group operating in central Homs province said late on Wednesday it had blown up a regime patrol on the main highway that links the capital with Aleppo, killing all members. The movement of Tahrir Homs, or the Liberation of Homs, vowed to carry out more attacks in...