A government official says Afghan security forces have driven Taliban fighters from Taywara District in western Ghor province. Abdul Hai Khateby, provincial governor spokesman, says fighting raged for two days before Afghan soldiers drove them from the district center on Friday. Khateby...

Britain pressed Syria and its ally Russia on Thursday to allow access to humanitarian aid in the war-torn country as a senior U.N. official told the Security Council that aid convoys had not been able to reach 540,000 people in besieged areas during July. "We're not asking for humanitarian...

Syrian opposition groups have reopened the northwestern border crossing of Bab al-Hawa with Turkey after a week-long closure caused by rebel infighting that blocked the main conduit for goods into Idlib province. Border officials and rebels said more than 200 trucks carrying food and...

A senior U.N. humanitarian official says over 200,000 people in Syria have fled their homes in the area around Deash's (ISIS) de facto capital of Raqqa since the start of April. The figure includes more than 30,000 people who were displaced this month alone, as U.S.-backed Syrian fighters...