Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko vowed Thursday to hold a referendum on NATO membership amid renewed tensions with Russia. "As the president, I act in accordance with the views of my people, and I will hold a referendum on the question of NATO membership," Poroshenko said in an interview...

The Syrian army said Thursday that recent advances against ISIS northeast of Aleppo were a starting point for further operations to drive the extremist group back and extend government control in the area. The army's general command said in a statement it had recently recaptured more than 30...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 35 army troops from the coastal city of Tartus have been killed in the past two weeks fighting in different battlefields across Syria, source told Zaman al-Wasl. The death toll included 15 officers, the source added. The coffins shipments to the regime's powerful...

(The Guardian)- A British man who died fighting alongside Kurdish forces in Syria killed himself to avoid being taken hostage by Islamic State militants. Ryan Lock, 20, from Chichester, West Sussex, died in an offensive by anti-Isis forces in a bid to retake the northern city of Raqqa,...