Syrian's military and Russian warplanes bombarded rebel-held districts of Aleppo on Saturday as Damascus's allies said victory was near, but insurgents fought back and army advances halted after rapid gains during the week. The United States said it was meeting a Russian team in Geneva to...

ISIS will not be defeated on the battlefield alone but by teaching tolerance and creating economic opportunity, Germany's defense minister said Saturday. "We should complement the coalition against terror with a coalition for education," Ursula von der Leyen told a Gulf security conference....

The Syrian army said it has sent reinforcements to Palmyra, where Islamic State fighters have advanced to its outskirts in some of the heaviest fighting since the group lost the historic city earlier this year. The group had taken over areas to the northwest and southeast of Palmyra, and...

More than 20,000 civilians have left eastern Aleppo on Saturday and over 1,200 rebels opposed to Syrian President Bashar Assad have laid down their arms, Interfax news agency cited the Russian Defense Ministry as saying on Saturday. Read More: Hand-wrapped cigarette, Syrians’...