The United States is sending 200 additional military personnel to Syria to help the campaign to drive the Islamic State militant group from Raqqa, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Saturday. Speaking in Bahrain at the Manama Dialogue conference on Middle East security, Carter said...

The Syrian regime army declared a ceasefire in several areas around Damascus and the northwestern province of Idlib beginning on Friday evening, but did not say how long the pause in fighting would last. There was no immediate comment from rebels on the truce. The areas affected...

Turkey is sending hundreds of commandos to reinforce its military campaign inside Syria, where the Turkish army has suffered increasing casualties in its fight to capture a key town from ISIS jihadists, reports said Friday. A total of 300 commandos from a base in the western Turkish province...

Hezbollah denied Friday media reports saying it had promised Russia not to retaliate against Israeli raids on targets within Syrian territories. “[The] alleged pledge from Hezbollah to Russia not to respond to the Israeli raids against targets inside Syria... is absolutely baseless and...