Syrian Kurdish-led forces said they had captured a town at the Turkish border from Islamic State on Monday, driving it away from the frontier in an advance backed by U.S.-led air strikes that has thrust deep into the jihadists' Syria stronghold, Reuters said. The capture of Tel Abyad by the...

The Syrian opposition's interim government on Monday has dismissed the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, Brigadier General Abdul Karim al-Ahmed, source told Zaman al-Wasl. The interim government of Syrian National Coalition said Brigadier Ahmed Berri to conduct the affairs of the Staff pending...

More than 23 civilians were killed by heavy insurgent shelling on government-controlled areas of the Syrian city of Aleppo, including near a mosque where children were taking religious lessons, Reuters reported Monday. State-run media said heavy shelling from Aleppo districts under the control...

After four years living in the capital of Isil's caliphate, Hassan's life story reads like the plot of a James Bond film. But the scars on his body and the photos he carries of murdered friends show his ordeal is all too real. Hassan, who asks for his full name not to be used for fear of...