Daesh (ISIS) is building up its defenses in a pocket of territory on the Syrian-Iraqi frontier, the U.S.-led coalition said Friday, in an anticipation of assaults by Syrian and Iraqi forces aiming to snuff out the extremists' last stronghold. Iraq launched an offensive on Thursday to...

The U.N.'s top human rights official is calling the Syrian government's siege of the capital's suburbs "an outrage" and says food and medical supplies must be allowed to reach civilians inside. Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said Friday in a statement that residents of the Eastern Ghouta suburbs of...

GENEVA (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad and his family have no role in the future of Syria, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Thursday ahead of peace talks aiming at a political transition scheduled to resume next month. Tillerson said that the Trump administration...

 (Reuters) - Iraqi forces launched an attack to drive Islamic State from the last territory it holds in Iraq on Thursday and the Syrian army and its allies said they planned to march on the jihadist’s last Syrian stronghold. The separate assaults across the Iraqi-Syrian frontier...