The United States does not believe it is worthwhile for Secretary of State John Kerry to meet now with Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, about a ceasefire in Syria, the State Department said on Thursday. "It's our belief that ... the remaining issues are at a technical level that need...

Syria's army and its allies have regained an important Aleppo district lost to rebels last month, state media and a war monitor said on Thursday, and were pressing an offensive south of the city to further squeeze the insurgents. If sustained, the advance in Ramousah would reverse nearly all...

At least five people were killed and 12 wounded in an Islamic State attack in the Syrian border town of Jarablus, Turkish security and hospital sources said on Thursday, only a day after civilians started returning to their homes in the town. Wounded people were taken to hospitals in Turkey's...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have agreed "in principle" to meet in Moscow, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry Thursday. "Netanyahu and Abbas have agreed in principle to meet in Moscow,” spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a weekly...