A U.S.-backed alliance of militias fighting ISIS hopes a U.S. decision to ease some restrictions on arming groups in Syria will lead to them getting anti-aircraft missiles, its spokesman said Tuesday. Although ISIS does not have warplanes, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance wants...

A Turkish court has put a broadcast ban on reporting of the investigation into last week's murder of the Russian ambassador to Ankara Andrei Karlov, state media said Tuesday. A Turkish policeman opened fire on Karlov while he was delivering a speech at the opening of a photography...

Russia's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday it viewed a U.S. decision to ease restrictions on weapons supplies to Syrian rebels as a "hostile act" which threatened the safety of Russian warplanes and military personnel, the RIA news agency reported. RIA quoted the ministry as saying the...

The Syrian army escalated aerial bombing of a rebel-held valley northwest of Damascus in an offensive begun last week to recapture the strategic area where a major spring provides most of the capital's water supplies, rebels and residents said Tuesday. They said the army shelled and...