At least 16 civilians including several children were killed in air strikes allegedly carried out by Russian jets on Thursday in Deir Ezzor province, a monitor said. The eastern province is partly controlled by the Islamic State (IS) group, which is under pressure from several fronts in...

 Israel responded with tank fire into Syria on Thursday after a Syrian mortar shell landed in the Israeli-occupied part of the Golan Heights, the army said. "In response to the projectile that hit Israel earlier today, the Israel Defense Forces targeted the sources of fire in the...

A Saudi official has visited northern Syria with a U.S. envoy to discuss reconstruction of Raqqa, which Kurdish and Arab militias backed by a U.S.-led coalition, captured from Islamic State on Tuesday, an adviser to the militias said. Saudi Gulf Affairs Minister Thamer al-Sabhan visited...

(Reuters) - Two suspected U.S. drone strikes on Tuesday killed 11 people on the mountainous Pakistan-Afghanistan border, following a strike a day earlier that killed 20, government and militant sources said. The attacks came days after a Canadian-American couple held hostage by the...