Turkey's military push against Kurds in northern Syria risks escalating the conflict, French President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday, calling on all parties to stop fighting and return to peace talks. Hollande told an annual gathering of French ambassadors that almost a year after Russia...

U.S. air strikes in Afghanistan have killed four commanders of the Haqqani network, a militant group affiliated with the Taliban, as government forces try to retake a district captured by insurgents last week, Afghan officials said on Tuesday. Naqeeb Ahmad Atal, a spokesman for the governor of...

By Ethar Abulhaq (Zaman al-Wasl)- An Israeli journalist and researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov said, “it is very frustrating that some attacked the former spokesman of Jaish al-Islam based on mistranslation of the interview I conducted with him.” She indicated to Zaman al-Wasl that, “It is...

 Russia's politically-sensitive and ultimately fruitless decision to launch bombing missions on Syria from Iranian soil has exposed the limits to its air power, leaving Moscow in need of a new strategy to advance its aims. People familiar with Russia's military said Moscow opted...