A week of infighting killed nearly 169 people in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region outside Syria's capital Damascus before an uneasy returned Friday, activists said. The clashes erupted on April 28 between the powerful Army of Islam faction and the former Al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham...

A de-escalation agreement in Syria will come into force from midnight tonight but Russia's air force will continue strikes against Islamic State elsewhere in the country, Russian news agencies cited the Defence Ministry as saying on Friday....

 Russia, Iran and Turkey on Thursday signed an agreement on setting up four safe zones in Syria that the United Nations described as a promising step to wind down the brutal six-year war. The United States however gave an extremely cautious welcome, citing concerns over Iran's role as a...

Thousands of south Yemenis demonstrated Thursday in support of a governor sacked by the president in a blow to his authority and his efforts to keep together a motley loyalist coalition. In his war with Shiite Muslim rebels who control the capital Sanaa and much of the north, President...