Five people have been killed and 15 others have been injured in a barrel bomb attack allegedly carried out by Bashar al-Assad regime forces in Aleppo’s Maadi district, a civil defense official said Friday. "The civil defense squad also pulled out a number of injured people from several...

Syrian insurgents say they have begun a campaign to capture full control of the divided city of Aleppo, Syria's most populous city before it become a main battleground in its four-year-old civil war. Neither side has been able to control Syria's main commercial hub, 50 km from Turkey, since...

U.S. and coalition forces conducted 13 air strikes targeting ISIS in Iraq on Thursday and 11 strikes against the militant group in Syria, the U.S. military said Friday. In Syria, forces focused on ISIS's crude oil-collection points, as attacking "revenue generation activities remains a priority...

President Vladimir Putin reaffirmed Russia's support for Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad on Friday and said he opposed any use of external force to try to end the Syrian civil war. Putin showed no sign of wavering in his policy of trying to shield Assad from pressure from the West in a 4...