Ukrainian armed forces on Tuesday launched a "special operation" against militiamen in the country's Russian speaking east, authorities said, recapturing a military airfield from pro-Moscow separatists. Gunfire could be heard from the airfield at the town of Kramatorsk after...

Syria's army launched a major ground assault on the central city of Homs on Tuesday, state television said, with troops entering rebel-held districts under government siege for nearly two years. "The Syrian army and the (pro-regime militia) National Defence Forces (NDF) have...

The Syrian Football Association says a national youth team player has been killed in a mortar attack in the central city of Homs. SFA President Salah Ramadan says Tarek Ghrair, 15, died on Tuesday when a mortar exploded near his home in Ghouta, a western district of Homs where the...

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