Islamic Stae fighters on Monday have killed at least 26 Syrian regime soldiers on west of the ancient city Palmyra, a monitoring group said, after days of advances by regime forces backed by Syrian and Russian air cover. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the fighting...

The fate of President Bashar al-Assad will play no part in talks to end the Syrian war, the head of the government's delegation said, leading the U.N. peace envoy to warn that lack of progress on the issue could threaten a fragile cessation of hostilities. Damascus delegate...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime’s helicopters on Monday have dropped eight barrel bombs on the ebel-held villages in the coastal Latakia province and in the western countryside of Idlib, local activists said. The barrel-bomb attacks targeted villages of al-Najiya and Mara’nd, turning...

Turkish newspapers carried front-page pictures on Monday of three more men believed to be planning suicide bomb attacks for ISIS, after a suspected member of the radical militant group killed three Israelis and an Iranian in Istanbul. Sunday's attack on Istiklal Street, a long pedestrian...