The Pentagon credited Russia on Friday for helping calm tensions in southern Syria after a US jet shot down a pro-regime combat drone that had fired at coalition forces. In the first incident of its type, the pro-regime drone on Thursday fired what turned out to be a dud bomb at US-led...

The Russian military on Friday accused the U.S.-led coalition in Syria of providing safe corridors for ISIS to leave the area around its stronghold of Raqqa. Col. Gen. Sergei Surovikin, the commander of Russian forces in Syria, said ISIS made a deal earlier this month with the Kurdish forces...

U.S.-led coalition forces launched heavy raids into Friday morning in support of Syrian fighters battling to oust ISIS from its bastion of Raqqa, activists said. The Kurdish-Arab alliance known as the Syrian Democratic Forces broke into Raqqa city's east earlier this week, months after they...

A joint statement by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and the U.A.E. late on Thursday accused 59 individuals and 12 charity organizations in Qatar of being “linked to terror”, local media reported. The list includes the International Union of Muslim Scholars' Egyptian chairman, Yousef...