Syrian regime troops and allied militia pushed rebel fighters back on Wednesday from a hilltop overlooking a strategic highway in President Bashar al-Assad’s coastal heartland, state media said. Citing a military source, state news agency SANA said army units and pro-government militia...

Islamic State is looking at potentially vulnerable oil assets in Libya and elsewhere outside its Syria stronghold, where the militant group controls about roughly 80 percent of the oil and gas fields, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday. The official, who briefed reporters...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Islamist factions have recaptured territory from regime army and allied militia in Eastern Ghouta suburbs, activists said Tuesday. The recent gain came after Rebels had formed a new military operations room in the embattled suburbs included Islam Army, Ajnad al-Sham,...

The United States and Russia agreed Tuesday to push ahead with Syrian peace talks in New York this week, after intense talks between US Secretary of State John Kerry and President Vladimir Putin. After a three-hour meeting in Moscow between Putin and Kerry, Russia and the...