German Chancellor Angela Merkel told a German radio station that military efforts were necessary in Syria even though they would not put and end to the four-year-old civil war there. Merkel said she had spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin about the conflict in Syria on...

Airstrikes by Russian jets hit targets around the town of Talbiseh in western Syria Sunday, residents and an activist group in Syria said, a day after Russia promised to step up its air campaign. Ambulances rushed wounded people to hospital in Talbiseh, north of the city of Homs, and one...

Russia said on Saturday it will step up air strikes in Syria, escalating a military intervention which Moscow says is weakening Islamic State militants but which Western powers say aims to support President Bashar al-Assad. A senior Russian military officer said Russian jets based...

At least 13 people, including 5 children, have been killed in Russian and Syrian air strikes on northern province of Idlib, activists and a monitoring group said on Saturday. The Syrian network for Human Rights reported death of 11 people, including one civil defense soldier and a family of...