A senior Iranian official said Tuesday the Islamic Republic will respond "at the appropriate time and place" to a purported Israeli missile strike that killed several Iranian troops in Syria. The comments by Alaeddin Boroujerdi, the chairman of the Iranian parliament's national security...

  U.S.-led  air strikes killed at least 27 civilians including 10 children in a village held by Daesh (ISIS) in northeastern Syria Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said. "We don't know for the moment if the U.S.-led international coalition or Iraqi...

Over three dozen Syrians held for years by al-Qaeda-linked insurgents in the country's northwest were released on Tuesday as part of a deal to hand over areas around Damascus back to the government. The 42 people freed on Tuesday are the first batch of more than 80 who are due to be...

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Monday the U.S. will not withdraw its forces from Syria unless peace is fully achieved throughout the country. "We do not want to simply pull out before the diplomats have won the peace, so you win the fight and then you win the peace," Mattis told...