(Al-Jazeera)- US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart have made a "significant start" in fixing their countries' relationship, while agreeing to cooperate in fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group, the White House said following an hour-long phone call. The two...

(Sky News)- Western security forces have warned the humanitarian crisis in parts of Syria could "outweigh" the situation in Aleppo, as aid workers claim the ceasefire isn't working. A classified document, seen by Sky News, says Syrian government forces have "ethnically cleansed swathes of...

Several Syrian Islamist factions including al Qaeda's former branch in the country said on Saturday they were joining forces, as clashes between jihadists and more moderate rebels raged on in northwestern areas. An online statement issued by the Islamist factions announced the formation of...

Syrian regime forces entered the village of Ain al-Fija near Damascus Saturday and took control from rebels of a spring and pumping station that supply most of the capital's water, a military media unit run by Lebanese group Hezbollah said. A monitoring group said the Syrian army had...