Syrian rebels backed by Turkish forces have taken some towns near northern Syria's Manbij, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, marking their latest advance against ISIS militants south of Turkey's border. Erdogan made the comment in a speech broadcast live on television. The...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said on Monday there are so far about 465,000 people killed and missing in Syria's civil war. The war began six years ago on Wednesday with protests against President Bashar al-Assad's government. It has since dragged in...

(Los Angeles Times)- As the war in Syria grinds into its seventh year this week, a vital building block of the country’s future has fallen victim to the carnage: the education of its children. About 1.75 million children and youth in Syria are out of school and most are up to six...

 A powerful explosion struck a bus in downtown Kabul during rush hour Monday, officials said, sending smoke rising in the sky just days after a deadly insurgent assault on Afghanistan's biggest military hospital. At least one woman was killed and eight others wounded in the blast, which...