Syrian government and rebel forces battled for control of high ground on the Aleppo outskirts on Saturday as warplanes bombed the city's opposition-held east relentlessly in a Russian-backed offensive that has left Washington's Syria policy in tatters. In their first major ground advance of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 50 civilians were killed and tens wounded on Saturday morning during continuous aerial bombardment on the besieged eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo city, medics said. A medical source in the city proposed the number of dead will rise in the next hours as there are...

(NOW)- Free Syrian Army-affiliated rebel factions in northwestern Aleppo have announced the formation of a new group dubbed the Free Idlib Army. On Thursday, officers from the Northern Division, Mountain Hawks Brigade and Division 13 announced their “complete unity in the Free Idlib Army,”...

The commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan said on Friday that the Kabul government's peace deal with warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar was an "encouraging" step that would bring a long-time belligerent into reconciliation with the government. Army General John Nicholson told reporters at the...