The Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement, a Syrian opposition group, claimed that a Russian warplane targeted Idlib province’s Benin village using a white phosphorous bomb. Yasser al-Yousef, an activist in the movement, told Anadolu Agency late Thursday that the attack left a number of people...

Syrian regime forces captured the village of Tel Hadya in the northern province of Aleppo on Friday, Reuters said, in the latest territorial gains reported against insurgents in the area. The reported advance brought pro-government forces closer to the main highway that links...

Kurdish forces entered the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar Friday after cutting it off from east and west in an offensive against ISIS militants that could provide critical momentum in efforts to defeat the extremist group. A Reuters correspondent saw hundreds of Kurdish peshmerga fighters...

Syria's pledge not to use indiscriminate weapons must be taken with "a grain of salt," the United States said on Thursday, noting there were nearly 1,500 barrel bomb attacks in October even though the country's government denies using them. Syria sent a statement to United...