The Philippines ruled out negotiations on Tuesday with Islamist militants holding hostages and occupying a southern town, after reports that a rebel leader wanted to trade a Catholic priest for his parents being held by police. Presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said there would be no...

The White House warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday that he and his military would "pay a heavy price" if it conducted a chemical weapons attack and said the United States had reason to believe such preparations were underway. The White House said in a statement released late...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Dozens of civilians were killed and wounded during Russian and the Global Coalition airstrikes on the cities and countryside of Deir Ez Zor, al-Raqqah, and al-Hasakah which are all areas excluded from the de-escalation of tension areas agreed upon between Russia, Turkey and...

US-backed fighters have seized a quarter of Syria's Raqqa from Daesh (ISIS), a monitor said Monday, less than three weeks after they first entered the northern city. Arab and Kurdish militiamen from the Syrian Democratic Forces smashed into the militants main Syrian bastion on June 6 after a...