The U.S. military is investigating reports that it killed a civilian in a recent strike in northwest Syria that meant to target a senior al-Qaida leader, a military official said in a statement Tuesday. Relatives and neighbors of a 60-year-old man killed in the May 3 strike in the...

The international coalition forces, led by the United States of America, conducted military exercises in one of their military bases deployed in the Kurdish-held areas in northeastern Syria. A local source in the countryside of Al-Hasakah province told Zaman al-Wasl that the International...

Russia's defense minister hosted his counterparts from Iran, Syria and Turkey on Tuesday for talks that were part of the Kremlin's efforts to help broker a rapprochement between the Turkish and Syrian governments. The Russian Defense Ministry said the talks focused on “practical steps to...

A helicopter raid by U.S. forces in northern Syria early on Monday killed a senior leader of the militant Islamic State group, the U.S. military said. The U.S. Central Command said in a statement that the IS leader, Abd-al-Hadi Mahmud al-Haji Ali, was “responsible for planning terror...