Turkey arrested 49 alleged members of Daesh (ISIS) Saturday, some of whom were suspected of planning an attack on Turkey's national holiday Sunday, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. The arrests in the capital Ankara came a day before celebrations across the country for the...

Britain Friday urged the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions on Syria after a U.N.-led investigation found that government forces were responsible for the sarin gas attack on Khan Sheikhun. A joint U.N.-Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) panel...

Syrian and Iraqi forces closing in on the last scraps of Islamic State’s caliphate straddling the remote border area between the two countries have already witnessed the jihadists’ likely response. While their comrades mounted last stands in their Syrian capital of Raqqa and the...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - An official document seen by Reuters shows that at least 131 Russian citizens died in Syria in the first nine months of this year, a number that relatives, friends and local officials say included private military contractors.   The document, a death certificate...