The Turkish army is expanding its deployment in northwest Syria with the goal of encircling a Kurdish enclave and reining in Russian strikes in the Idlib border province under a deal to reduce clashes, rebels and witnesses said on Sunday. A convoy of Turkish army troops entered Syria...

Syrian regime and allied forces have taken the eastern town of al-Mayadeen from Islamic State, a Syrian military source said on Saturday, further weakening the militants' diminishing presence in Syria. Al-Mayadeen, near the Iraqi border in Deir al Zor province, had become a major base...

ISIS is on the verge of defeat in Syria's Raqqa and the city may finally be cleared of the militants on Saturday or Sunday, the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia told Reuters on Saturday. The U.S.-led coalition against ISIS said around 100 of the jihadist group's fighters had surrendered in Raqqa...

Some 100 fighters from ISIS handed themselves over to US-backed fighters in the northern city of Raqqa Friday as fighting continued with remaining gunmen in a pocket inside the city. Omar Alloush of the Raqqa Civilian Council did not give details how the 100 fighters surrendered but...