Russian airstrikes in northwest Syria which Moscow said targeted ISIS fighters hit a rebel group supported by foreign opponents of President Bashar Assad on Wednesday, wounding eight of the insurgents, the group's commander said. He said the fighters were hit in the countryside of Hama...

Russian airstrikes in Syria on Wednesday killed at least 36 civilians and targeted areas where ISIS and al-Qaeda-linked fighters are not present, the head of the Western-backed Syrian political opposition said. "All the targets in today's Russian air raid over northern Homs were civilians,"...

Russia said it launched air strikes against Islamic State in Syria on Wednesday after President Vladimir Putin secured his parliament's unanimous backing to intervene to prop up the Kremlin's closest Middle East ally. Moscow gave Washington just an hour's notice of the strikes,...

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday secured parliament's unanimous backing to launch air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria, paving the way for imminent Russian military intervention in its closest Middle East ally. Russia has already sent military experts to a...