President Barack Obama on Friday vehemently rejected Russia's military actions in Syria as self-defeating and dismissed the idea that Moscow was strengthening its hand in the region. He vowed not to let the conflict become a U.S.-Russia "proxy war." At a White House news conference,...

More than 100 people killed on Friday in double air strikes on northern city of Aleppo by Syrian regime and key ally Russia, activists said amid claims by state-run media that the deadly aerial attacks have targeted ISIS strongholds. Russian warplanes have mounted a new wave of air strikes...

Russia bombed Syria for a third day on Friday, mainly hitting areas held by rival insurgent groups rather than ISIS fighters it said it was targeting and drawing an increasingly angry response from the West. The U.S.-led coalition that is waging its own air war against ISIS called on the...

 The Taliban claimed Friday to have shot down a U.S. military transport plane in eastern Afghanistan in a crash that killed 11 people, as the battle for Kunduz raged after the emboldened militants briefly seized the city. The Taliban's stunning success in Kunduz, their biggest tactical...