U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday sought to diffuse criticism of a U.S.-Russian ceasefire agreement on Syria arguing that without it violence would increase significantly with many more Syrians slaughtered or forced to flee the war-torn country. The deal struck between...

Israeli warplanes on Tuesday night struck several Syrian artillery batteries in ostensible retaliation for rockets fired earlier from Syrian territory into northern Israel, the Israeli military has said. In a statement, the army said Israeli warplanes had targeted artillery batteries...

Six Daesh terrorists were killed by coalition airstrikes in northern Syria, the Turkish military said Wednesday. In a statement, the Turkish General Staff gave the total toll for airstrikes and artillery bombardments against Daesh targets Tuesday. As well as six terrorists killed by...

Two PKK terrorists were killed in airstrikes in southeast Turkey, the military said Wednesday. In a statement, the Turkish General Staff said the strikes in Hakkari province, which also destroyed a PKK arms dump, were carried out between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. local time (1700 and 1800GMT)...