Turkey said Wednesday fewer than 100 ISIS extremists were still holed up in a flashpoint Syrian town which has seen the bloodiest clashes of Ankara's half-year campaign inside the conflict-torn country. Speaking to NTV television, Defense Minister Fikri Isik said half of the town of Al-Bab...

Rival Syrian camps were due in Geneva Wednesday for U.N.-brokered talks to end the six-year conflict with persistent violence and deadlock over the country's political future dampening hopes of a breakthrough. President Bashar Assad's negotiators and opposition delegations were expected to...

More than a year ago, Mayar and Nawar Ballish escaped car bomb attacks in Damascus. Now the Syrian sisters, both students in their twenties, go to school by train past neat gardens and farms in the quiet hills of Bavaria, southern Germany. They have lived there since October 2015. Their...

China, in an early test of U.S. President Donald Trump, is nearly finished building almost two dozen structures on artificial islands in the South China Sea that appear designed to house long-range surface-to-air missiles, two U.S. officials told Reuters. The development is likely to raise...