President Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman on Thursday said the Turkish government did not play a role in the publication by its state-run news agency of locations of what appeared to be U.S. military posts in Syria. Ibrahim Kalin made the comment at a news conference after the Pentagon said on...

 At least 28 Syrian government soldiers and pro-regime fighters were killed Wednesday in a rebel ambush in the eastern Ghouta region near Damascus, a monitor said Thursday. The fighters came under attack by the Army of Islam rebel group as they attempted to advance in the town of...

The parents of a U.S. journalist kidnapped in Syria nearly five years ago issued a new plea for his release on Thursday. Austin Tice, a freelance reporter and former U.S. Marine from Houston, Texas, was kidnapped in August 2012 aged 31 while reporting in Damascus on the uprising against...

Iraqi forces on Thursday regained control over Imam Gharbi, a village south of Mosul, from Daesh (ISIS) militants who had seized it as their defense of their stronghold in the city crumbled, Iraqi police said. The action formed part of the next phase of the U.S.-backed government's campaign...