A Russian special forces officer has been killed in a combat operation near Palmyra in Syria, Interfax news agency reported on Thursday, citing a Russian military source in Syria. "While performing a special task to direct Russian air strikes onto terrorist targets, a Russian...

The ceasefire in Syria is broadly holding but the United States should be doing more to support it, Russia's Defence Ministry said in a statement on Saturday. The ministry said Russian monitors had registered no violations of the ceasefire involving the use of heavy weapons within...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army fighters took three villages from the Islamic State in northern Aleppo province near the Turkish border, local reporter said on Saturday. The moderate rebels have seized control of al-Jakka, al-Kamaliya and Mrigel in the last 48 hours. Meanwhile, the rallies...

  Dozens of people were killed in a series of air strikes on the city of Raqqa in northern Syria on Saturday, a monitoring group and activists said, as Damascus and Moscow waged attacks on areas controlled by Islamic State. A cessation of hostilities in Syria took effect three...