The opening of Russia's showpiece congress aimed at bringing Syria's seven-year war to an end was delayed by at least two hours Tuesday, as Moscow struggled to bring together key players. Regime-backer Moscow has invited 1,600 delegates to the meeting in the Black Sea resort of...

The Syrian government's chemical weapons stockpile has been linked for the first time by laboratory tests to the largest sarin nerve agent attack of the civil war, diplomats and scientists told Reuters, supporting Western claims that government forces under President Bashar Assad were...

At least 12 civilians were killed and 16 others injured in two airstrikes in Idlib province in northern Syria on Monday, according to an official with the White Helmets civil-defense agency.  A Russian warplane struck a marketplace in Saraqib city in the province, White Helmets...

Militants attacked an Afghan army unit guarding a military academy in the capital of Kabul on Monday, killing at least five soldiers and wounding 10, officials said. Hours later, ISIS claimed responsibility for the assault. The attack was the latest in a wave of relentless...