The powerful Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and its local allies have drawn up plans for a major attack to seize the final stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border held by ISIS fighters, a YPG source familiar with the plan said Thursday. Such an offensive could deprive ISIS fighters of a logistical...

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has discussed Russia's military operation in Syria with his Syrian counterpart Fahad Jassim al-Freij at a meeting in Moscow, RIA news agency reported Thursday, citing Russia's ministry. During the meeting they confirmed their intention to further increase...

Syria peace talks due to start in Switzerland on Friday "cannot fail," the chief UN mediator in the conflict said in a video message to the Syrian people Thursday. "You have seen enough conferences, two of them already taken place," Staffan de Mistura said on the eve of the intra-Syrian...

Security forces killed 20 Kurdish militants in southeast Turkey while three Turkish soldiers died in a rebel attack, the military said on Wednesday, as authorities widened a curfew in the mainly Kurdish region's largest city, Diyarbakir. Hundreds of locals, including children...