Rebel gains which have broken a Syrian government siege in the city of Aleppo will strengthen the opposition's hand should a new round of peace talks go ahead, an opposition negotiator told Reuters. Previous rounds collapsed earlier this year when the opposition objected to the forces of...

 U.S.-backed forces have seized full control of the northern Syrian city of Manbij near the Turkish border after the last remaining Islamic State fighters, who had been using civilians as human shields, left, a spokesman for the group said Friday. Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) were now...

(Zaman Al Wasl) Field sources in the village of Madaya al-Riwaya confirmed the United Nations are setting as a condition the evacuation of the villages of Kefrya and al-Foaa (Idlib countryside) for it to evacuate a child in need of an urgent operation after she was shot by a Hezbollah sniper....

Libyan forces engaged in renewed clashes with Islamic State militants in Sirte on Thursday, a day after capturing a convention complex that had been a symbol of the militant group's authority in the city. Forces aligned with Libya's U.N.-backed government seized the Ouagadougou convention...