A Russian warplane carried out two air strikes on Friday targeting the Sheikh Bahr area in the northern countryside of Idlib, while the Russian-backed forces and militias conducted air-ground military exercises in Jabal al-Akrad region, northeast of Latakia province, northwest of Syria....

As he turns 70, Russian President Vladimir Putin finds himself in the eye of a storm of his own making: His army is suffering humiliating defeats in Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of Russians are fleeing his mobilization order, and his top lieutenants are publicly insulting military leaders....

US forces killed three senior Islamic State leaders in two separate military operations in Syria Thursday, including a rare ground raid in a portion of the northeast that is controlled by the Syrian regime, US officials said. According to officials, US special operations forces conducted a...

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's health ministry on Thursday announced the crisis-hit country's first case of cholera in decades. The announcement comes as neighboring war-torn Syria is struggling to contain a cholera outbreak that has spread across the country over the past month. Lebanon...