WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. military forces again focused air strikes on the area near the Syrian city of Kobani in their campaign to turn back Islamic State forces and also hit oil facilities held by the militant group, the U.S. Central Command said on Thursday. A...

(Reuters) - Air strikes by U.S.-led forces have killed 553 Islamist fighters and 32 civilians during a month-long campaign in Syria , a monitoring group which tracks the violence said on Thursday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the vast majority of the...

    (Zaman Al Wasl) – Violent clashes still ongoing between Syrian regime forces and the Islamic battalions in the farmlands of Kerdi Hill near the city of Douma, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Wednesday. In his turn,...

Syria's armed forces, including its aircraft, have been providing military support to Kurdish fighters defending the town of Kobane besieged by jihadists, the information minister said. "The state with its military forces and planes has been providing military and logistical...