Syria's state-run news agency and an opposition monitoring group say regime troops have recaptured a town in Aleppo province from ISIS militants. The victory is key for Syria's military access to the provincial capital, Aleppo city. SANA says the army took the town of Khanaser on Thursday,...

The United Nations on Wednesday carried out its first humanitarian airdrop in Syria to reach thousands of people facing severe food shortages in a city besieged by Islamic State jihadists. "Earlier this morning, a WFP plane dropped the first cargo of 21 tonnes of items into...

 (Zaman Al Wasl- Reuters)- The Syrian army and Islamic State militants waged fierce battles on Wednesday around Khanaser, a strategic town southeast of Aleppo, where an attack by the jihadist group has cut the main land route to the city during three days of fighting. A regime military...

The government of  Bashar al-Assad and rebel groups accepted a plan for a cessation of hostilities to begin on Saturday and the United States warned it would be hard to hold the country together if the fighting did not stop. With hostilities reported on several fronts,...