The size of Russia's military force in Syria is likely to be significantly reduced and a drawdown could start before the end of the year, the chief of the Russian military general staff said on Thursday. Russia's military support of Syrian President Bashar Assad, notably through air...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces and allied militias have taken control of al-Quriya town, one of last ISIS strongholds in eastern Syria, local sources said Thursday. Three women and a child girl were killed in the aerial bombing on the town east of al-Mayadeen city. ISIS fighters...

Somalia’s government said Wednesday it had requested a U.S. air strike that killed scores of suspected militants to help pave the way for an upcoming ground offensive against Islamist group al-Shabaab. The U.S. military's Africa Command (Africom) said on Tuesday it had killed more...

Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has spent the past six years fighting a brutal civil war that has killed at least 465,000 of his own people, leveled major Syrian cities like Aleppo, displaced millions of desperate civilians, and helped trigger the worst refugee crisis since World War II....