The Pentagon is expected to acknowledge as early as Monday that the U.S. has about 2,000 troops in Syria, according to a Reuters report. The number does not represent an increase in troop levels in the country, but simply reflects a more accurate count. The official troop count in Syria...

Iran said on Thursday that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince was discredited internationally by his “immature” behavior, state television reported, after Mohammed bin Salman called Iran’s Supreme Leader “the new Hitler of the Middle East”. “No one in the world and in the...

Russia is working together with Saudi Arabia to unify the Syrian opposition, Russia’s RIA news agency quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov as saying on Friday. Lavrov was speaking at a meeting with United Nations special envoy on Syria, Staffan de Mistura, who is visiting...

As Islamists continue to lose ground, the US administration reportedly fears that northern territories, where its troops have been training rebel forces, will fall to the Syrian regime. The United States plans to keep a military presence in Kurdish-dominated northern Syria after...