The Jordanian army Thursday said it had killed a number of Daesh (ISIS) militants who had tried to approach its northern border with Syria. The incident Tuesday came as clashes raged between Syrian regime forces and "a gang of Daesh terrorists" in the Yarmuk Basin region of southwestern...

Israel said Thursday it saw potentially stabilizing benefits to Bashar Assad’s winning the Syrian civil war, after the Israeli military said it had killed seven Islamist insurgents in a rare air strike across the countries' frontier. The remarks, by Israel's defense minister, signal an...

 Four Syrian regime fighters were killed east of the capital, an activist group said Wednesday, in an ambush claimed by Daesh (ISIS). The militants struck Tuesday in a hilly area about 50 kilometers from Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "There were...

Russia on Tuesday said there were no plans for a major assault on Idlib, despite Bashar Assad earlier saying it was a priority to retake the province. "There's currently no question and can be no question of an operation, of a major assault on Idlib," Russia's Syria envoy Alexander...