At least nine loyalist fighters have been killed in clashes with forces of Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar in the south of Tripoli, the U.N.-recognized government said Friday. Haftar's forces launched an offensive in April to try to wrest Tripoli from forces backing the Government of...

Opposition activists said Friday airstrikes have stopped in northwestern Syria after a truce went into effect there, seeking to reduce violence in the wake of a three-month government offensive. Syrian state media quoted an unnamed military official as saying the conditional cease-fire went...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 21 troops from coastal Tartus province killed in July as regime forces wage major offensive to recapture northwestern Syria, pro-regime news feeds reported. Most slain troops were killed in Hama province and scattered attack in eastern Deir Ezzor province....

Syrian regime soldiers have gained some ground in the country's last rebel bastion during a Russian-backed offensive that aid agencies warn is growing bloodier. The wave of violence in northwest Syria since late April has killed more than 400 civilians and forced more than 440,000 to flee...