ISIS fighters withdrew from much of the Syrian oasis city of Palmyra overnight, activists said Thursday, but government forces paused before entering its ravaged ancient ruins because of mines. Russian-backed Syrian troops pushed into a western neighborhood of the city late Wednesday...

Syrian government aircraft deliberately bombed and strafed a humanitarian convoy, killing 14 aid workers and halting relief operations, U.N. investigators said on Wednesday in a report identifying war crimes committed by both sides in Syria's war. Syrian and Russian forces conducted...

All Syrian sides that fought in the battle for Aleppo committed war crimes and the deal to evacuate civilians following the rebel defeat was a "crime of forced displacement', a U.N. probe said Wednesday. The United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) for Syria documented violations including...

Russian-backed Syrian government forces will enter the ISIS-held city of Palmyra "very soon", a Syrian military source said Wednesday, as government forces seek to win back the city from the group for the second time in a year. The army said Wednesday it had captured an area known as the...