ISIS fighters have captured Palmyra castle overlooking the ancient city in eastern Syria, a news agency affiliated to the militants said Sunday. Heavy Russian airstrikes had pushed back the militants from inside the city hours after they captured it last Saturday in a surprise...

When President Bashar al-Assad turns from the wreckage of Aleppo to assert his authority across a fractured Syria, it will be as a figure who is virtually unassailable by rebels, but still faces great challenges in restoring the power of his state. The expected fall of Aleppo would mean...

Turkish warplanes destroyed 27 ISIS targets and killed 12 militants in the latest operations in northern Syria, the Turkish army said Sunday. The jets hit shelters, vehicles mounted with guns, ammunition depots and other targets strikes in the al-Bab, Bzagah and Kabr al Mukri regions of...

Russian air strikes forced Islamic State fighters to retreat to the outskirts of Palmyra on Sunday, a day after they had stormed the ancient city in eastern Syria, a war monitor said. The militants were now fighting in orchards on the fringe of Palmyra, the British-based Syrian Observatory...