Syrian regime forces backed by Iranian troops edged closer to a major rebel-controlled highway south of Aleppo Tuesday, pushing further into insurgent-held areas supported by heavy Russian airstrikes. After seizing a series of villages including Zitan, Humaira and Qalaajiya, the army said it...

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday that Russia had for the first time struck ISIS targets in Syria with missiles fired from a submarine in the Mediterranean. "The targets were two large terrorist positions in the territory of Raqqa," Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin in a...

(Zaman Al Wasl) - Al Qaeda's Syria branch, the Nusra Front, said its fighter who had carried out the suicide bombing against Syrian regime forces in southern countryside of Aleppo on Tuesday is Turkish. Nusra said on social media that Younis al-Turkey had blown himself up in an army checkpoint...

Countries involved in the Syrian peace process are set to meet in New York on Dec. 18 but the talks may hinge on efforts to unite Syrian opposition groups in the coming days, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday. Russia, the United States, European and Middle Eastern countries...