Syrian rebels on Thursday shot down two helicopters, including one Russian, in the northern countryside of Hama province, a monitoring group and local sources said, as Russia continued air support for Basjar al-Assad forces fighting on the ground. The two helicopters was downed near the village...

Islamic State fighters have killed three Assyrian Christian captives who were among nearly 200 Christians abducted earlier this year in the northeastern province of al-Hasaka, Reuters said Thursday. The three men were killed late last month but the news emerged this week when a video showing...

At least ten Yemeni civilians were killed when a rocket hit a house in a village in the southwestern province of Dhamar on Thursday and was most likely to have been fired by Saudi-led coalition jets, residents said. Arab coalition warplanes have been responsible for several mass...

Syrian regime forces and allied militia backed by Russian airstrikes launched an offensive against rebels in the Ghab Plain in western Syria Thursday, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and a rebel fighting there said. Rebel groups led by the dominant Ahrar al-ShamIslamic...