HOMS, Syria (AP) — Thousands of Syrians streamed into war-battered parts of the central city of Homs for the first time in nearly two years Saturday, checking their homes after rebels left as part of a deal allowing them to safely withdraw as pro-government forces took the city....

  Exhausted and worn out from a year-long siege, hundreds of Syrian rebels on Wednesday left their last remaining bastions in the heart of the central city of Homs under a cease-fire deal with government forces, according to AP. The exit of some 1,200 fighters and...

Syria's air force killed at least 18 people Wednesday, including 10 children, in the latest strike on the battered city of Aleppo, as civilians continue to bear the brunt of the civil war. The air strikes came a day after at least 100 people, including some 80 civilians, died...

The United States imposed new sanctions on allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, prompting Moscow to denounce "Cold War" tactics amid more violence in eastern Ukraine. The move to ban visas and freeze assets of the likes of Putin's friend Igor Sechin, head of...