A Russian reconnaissance aircraft was brought down by a Syrian missile c, the Russian defence ministry said. It blamed Israel for the crash, saying the plane was caught in the crossfire as four Israel...

War is personal. And in Syria, after eight years of a grinding conflict, there are as many stories of loss, dispossession and desperate hope as there are people.What started as peaceful protests in 20...

More than four years ago, the FBI appealed to the public to help identify the narrator in one of the Islamic State group’s best-known videos, showing captured Syrian soldiers digging their own grave...

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The US-led coalition says it has hit a mosque used by the Islamic State group as a command and control centre in eastern Syria.The coalition said on Tuesday that it launched the strike in support of t...

President Donald Trump has agreed to give the military about four months to withdraw the 2,000 US troops in Syria, administration officials said on Monday, backtracking from his abrupt order two weeks...

Syria's military announced on Friday that it has taken control of the flash-point Kurdish-held town of Manbij, where Turkey has threatened an offensive.The announcement was quickly welcomed by the Kre...

President Donald Trump has returned to the US from an unannounced trip to Iraq, his first visit to a danger zone abroad.Air Force One landed at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, at 5.12 am.Trump had been ...

The Trump administration has ordered the military to start withdrawing roughly 7,000 troops from Afghanistan in the coming months, two defence officials said on Thursday, an abrupt shift in the 17-yea...

Warning of a 'humanitarian catastrophe,' Syrian Kurdish forces who are allied with the United States issued a 'general mobilization' call on Wednesday in northeastern Syria, along the border with Turk...