(Reuters) - Eighteen foreign fighters from the Islamic State, including an American jihadist, were killed in a Syrian air raid on a town near the militant group's main stronghold city of Raqqa in eastern Syria , a human rights monitoring group said on Thursday. The Syrian...

(Reuters) - A record 4.1 million people in   Syria   received food rations in August due to more convoys being able to cross front lines and borders from   Turkey   and Jordan, the U.N.'s World Food Program (WFP) said on Tuesday. "We are reaching more...

  Counting in Arabic, Hamza is carefully stacking freshly-baked flatbreads on the shop counter. It is a Saturday afternoon in the southern Turkish town of Antakya, blisteringly hot. The seven-year-old boy has been working in the small bakery ever since his family of five fled from...

Iran is now in the final months of extended negotiations with   Western countries on the future of its nuclear programme; talks that could reshape the geopolitical equation in the Middle East. But as the violence continues to smolder in neighbouring Iraq and Syria, and...