A Kurdish-led alliance backed by U.S.-led strikes seized a stronghold of ISIS in northeastern Syria on Friday, activists said. The Syrian Democratic Forces were now in full control of Al-Shadadi in Hassakeh province, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said. The...

U.S. warplanes carried out air strikes early on Friday morning in the western Libyan city of Sabratha, where Islamic State militants operate, killing as many as 40 people. A U.S. military spokesman said the attacks targeted a senior Tunisian militant linked to attacks in Tunisia...

President Bashar al-Assad was out of step with the views of his main ally, Russia, when he said he planned to fight on until he re-established control over all of Syria, Russia's envoy to the United Nations was quoted as saying on Thursday. In the first public sign of cracks in...

At least 500 rebels on Wednesday crossed the Turkish border heading for the Syrian town of Azaz in northern Aleppo province, activists said, where opposition forces have suffered setbacks at the hands of Kurdish forces. "At least 500 rebels have crossed the Bab al-Salam border crossing on...