France's top military chief resigned Wednesday after a war of words with Emmanuel Macron over budget cuts that tested the new president's authority. The row between Macron and General Pierre de Villiers erupted last week when the chief of staff told a parliamentary committee he would...

( Foreign Policy )- A confidential U.S.-Russian cease-fire agreement for southwestern Syria that went into effect Sunday calls for barring Iranian-backed foreign fighters from a strategic stretch of Syrian territory near the borders of Israel and Jordan, according to three diplomatic sources....

U.S.-backed Syrian militias have captured a town south of the city of Raqqa where Daesh (ISIS) ran a major military base and training camp, a spokesman for the militias said on Tuesday. An alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias fighting under the banner of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)...

 Germany began on Sunday to pull its troops out of a Turkish air base where they have supported international operations against Daesh (ISIS) following a row with Ankara over access, a German defence ministry spokesman said. The withdrawal from the Incirlik base, approved by the German...