(The Independent)- The looming defeat of Isis in northern Syria is pushing the country’s six-year civil war into a new and dangerous phase as warring parties turn on each other, analysts have warned. The battle to defeat jihadis has made uneasy allies out of forces backed by countries...

After his arrest and torture by the government of Bashar al-Assad, dissident Khaled Rawas slipped out of Syria pledging to continue the fight. On Wednesday, he did just that — joining a landmark legal complaint in Germany seeking something that has long proved elusive for the victims of the...

A Russian general has reportedly been seriously wounded in Palmyra, the first Russian military person of the rank of general to be injured in the war, Fontanka and TV Rain reported. Maj. Gen. Pyotr Milyukhin reportedly lost both his legs and an eye in an explosion a week ago during a...

The United States has carried out another wave of precision strikes in Yemen targeting Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Friday, a day after the Pentagon acknowledged carrying out more than 20 strikes. One of the officials, however, said there were no U.S....