Turkey-backed Islamist rebels have formed 'Al Sham Army, a new armed faction operating in northern province of Aleppo, an online statement by the newly group revealed on Saturday. The fighters who joined Al Sham Army, or the Levant Army, had fought before under banner of al-Qaeda's Syria wing,...

Islamic State fighters have seized villages close to the northern city of Aleppo from rival insurgents, a monitoring group said on Friday, despite an intensifying Russian air-and-sea campaign that Moscow says has targeted the militant group. News of the advance came as the...

Islamic State fighters have seized Syrian villages on the outskirts of Aleppo from rival insurgent fighters, a monitoring group said on Friday, despite Russian air strikes that Moscow says have targeted the militant group. Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps said separately one of...

An Iranian Revolutionary Guards general has been killed near Aleppo, where he was advising the Syrian army on their battle against ISIS fighters, the guards said in a statement Friday. General Hossein Hamedani was killed late Thursday, the statement said. Iran is the main regional ally of...