Syrian regime air strikes on Friday have killed 45 people, including 11 children and 9 women, across the war-torn country, the Syrian Network for Human Rights reported. Barrel bomb attacks have killed 7 civilians, including 3 children, in al-Yadouda town in the southern province of Daraa....

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday that he planned to discuss combating Islamic State militants in Syria and what role Iran could play when he meets with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, in Qatar in coming weeks. Kerry told the Council on Foreign Relations...

The United States and its allies staged 27 air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq on Thursday, the coalition leading the military operation said in a statement. Six of the eight air strikes in Syria hit near al Hasaka, striking five units of fighters,...

Turkish warplanes pounded Islamic State targets in Syria and police detained hundreds of suspected militants across Turkey on Friday, a sign that Ankara may have shed its hesitancy in taking a front-line role against jihadist fighters. Turkey has long been a reluctant partner in...