After the failure of its $500 million program to stand up a Syrian volunteer force to battle Islamic State extremists, the Obama administration has begun an effort to enable Arab militias to fight alongside a Kurdish force that has gotten U.S. air support for the past year. The stated U.S. aim...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighter on Wednesday have withdrawn from neighborhood took Tuesday in northern town of Sfiera near Aleppo after heavy clashes with Syrian regime troops and fighters from Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah, backed by Russian air strikes, according to Sfiera News Center....

A helicopter carrying 16 people was shot down and crashed into the sea near Libya's capital on Tuesday with at least nine passengers, including a senior militiaman, confirmed dead, a military official said. The aircraft was hit by gunfire shortly before noon and went down near the Al-Maya...

In the courtyard of an apartment building in the town of Gori in ex-Soviet Georgia is a clue to whether Russia's air strikes on targets in Syria are as accurate as the Kremlin would like the rest of the world to believe. Fashioned out of fragments of ordnance is a makeshift shrine to the five...