(Reuters) - The Syrian state news agency on Friday attacked U.S. military plans to train and equip Syrian rebels, saying they amounted to support for terrorists. The plan is part of the U.S. strategy to roll back the Islamic State group that has seized much of eastern and...

(Reuters) - U.N. aid workers have started delivering food to tens of thousands of people trapped in a besieged district of Homs city in  Syria  following negotiations with warring parties, officials said on Friday. In the absence of a nationwide peace deal, relief groups...

(Reuters) - Islamic State has executed a Syrian it accused of belonging to a militant cell that ambushed its fighters and blew up its vehicles in the town of al-Mayadin near the border with Iraq , a monitoring group that tracks the conflict said on Thursday. Islamic State...

(Reuters) - A 12-year-old boy was shot dead in Cizre in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, the sixth person to be killed in the largely Kurdish town in the last three weeks, security sources said. Local witnesses said police teams were traveling through the area at the time he was...