President Barack Obama said Thursday that he would keep 9,800 U.S. troops in Afghanistan through next year. "I have decided to maintain our current posture of 9,800 troops in Afghanistan through most of next year, 2016," Obama announced at a White House pess conference, citing security risks by...

The death toll of Russian air strikes on rebel-held towns north of the city of Homs on Thursday has reached 58, activists told Zaman Al Wasl as regime troops and their allies, backed by Russian jets launch major assault on long-held and strategic enclave of Syrian rebels. Activists said at...

(Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) The Democratic Union Party (PYD) has since the beginning of the Syrian revolution denied coordination with the Syrian regime in fighting the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and other opposition factions, then the Islamic State (ISIS). It...

Russian warplanes pounded Syrian rebels unaffiliated with Islamic State on Sunday, insurgents said, helping Moscow's ally Bashar al-Assad reclaim territory and dealing a fresh setback to the strategy of Washington and its allies. President Vladimir Putin - who has infuriated...