(Reuters) - Kurdish fighters captured six buildings from Islamic State militants besieging the Syrian town of Kobani on Tuesday and seized a large haul of their weapons and ammunition, a group monitoring the war said. Islamic State has been trying to take control of the town,...

The Free Syrian Army (FSA), the recognized armed opposition group against the Bashar al-Assad in Syria, has ceased its resistance in Aleppo, Syria’s second biggest city, withdrawing its 14,000 militia from the city, a ranking Turkish security source told the Hürriyet Daily News on...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The militant Islamic State group has killed 1,432 Syrians off the battlefield since the end of June when it declared a caliphate in the territory under its control, a group monitoring the war said on Monday. The killings included deaths by...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The Syrian government has agreed "in principle" to the U.N. envoy's call for local cease-fires to try to ease the worst fighting in the country's civil war but needs more details before it can make a final decision, a Syrian official said Monday. The...