U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday he would head to Moscow next week to meet Russian leaders and try to build momentum for a push to end Syria's civil war. Washington and Moscow have worked together to bring a group of regional and world powers together to forge a framework for...

The powerful Islamist insurgent group Ahrar al-Sham said on Wednesday that a Syrian opposition meeting in Saudi Arabia must insist that President Bashar al-Assad face justice and that Syria's "institutions of oppression" are dismantled. The group, whose founders had links to...

Syria has become the pre-eminent global incubator for a new generation of militants after Islamist groups more than doubled their recruitment of foreign fighters to as much as 31,000 over the past 18 months, according to a former British spy chief. In the chaos of Syria's...

Syrian regime forces backed by Iranian troops edged closer to a major rebel-controlled highway south of Aleppo Tuesday, pushing further into insurgent-held areas supported by heavy Russian airstrikes. After seizing a series of villages including Zitan, Humaira and Qalaajiya, the army said it...