The United Nations struggled to save Syrian peace talks as Damascus and its Russian allies seized territory in fierce fighting and rifts widened among embattled rebel factions. The Syrian army said on Wednesday its forces had broken through rebel defenses to reach two Shi'ite...

Sunni Muslim Arab fighters backed by Kurdish forces and U.S.-led air strikes retook a village in northern Iraq on Wednesday in an example of effective military cooperation on the ground between them against Islamic State insurgents. The offensive in the Makhmour district south...

Russia will not stop its air strikes on Syria until armed groups, such as al Qaeda's wing there, are defeated, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday. On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that Russia should stop bombing opposition forces in Syria now that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 women and children have been killed Tuesday in Russian air strikes on a Turkmen-dominated village in the northern countryside of Homs, medics told Zaman al-Wasl. In what seemed a deliberate Russian strikes on al-Burj village to provoke Turkey after reports of new...