Syrian engineers worked on Tuesday to open spillways and ease pressure on a major dam across the Euphrates River, amid a pause in a U.S.-backed assault to capture it from ISIS, a Reuters witness said. The Tabqa dam is a key strategic target in the military campaign to isolate and capture the...

Clashes raged around a key northern Syrian town on Tuesday after ISIS launched a counter-attack to fend off a US-backed advance near the extremists' stronghold Raqa. Backed by air power from an international coalition bombing ISIS, the Syrian Democratic Forces are laying the groundwork for...

 When Syria's war came to 73-year-old Joseph Mghazi's street in the Abbasiyeen neighborhood of Damascus, he ignored his neighbor's entreaties to halt his habitual streetside backgammon games. "We would sit and play backgammon as the shells were falling around us," he told AFP in the...

The White House is calling on Russia to immediately release all peaceful protesters arrested over the weekend during a large anti-government demonstration. White House press secretary Sean Spicer said the U.S. "strongly condemns the detention of hundreds of peaceful protesters throughout...