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The collapse of Syria's ceasefire is really bad news for the fight against ISIS
Syria peace talks are deadlocked as the regime and the opposition remain unable to move past a crucial sticking point — the role of President Bashar al-Assad in the country's future.Negotiations appear...
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Turkey says it is 'ready' to send troops into northern Syria to fight ISIS
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey is ready to send ground forces into Syria to tackle Islamic State militants if need be, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said, as two more rockets fired by the group struck a...
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John Kerry just drew a new red line for Assad in Syria
The new deadline for Syrian President Bashar Assad's transition out of power: August 1, US Secretary of State John Kerry said in a press conference at the State Department on Tuesday."The target date...
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Russia says it has withdrawn a jet that was terrorizing the Syrian rebels
The Russian Defense Ministry has announced the withdrawal of 30 of it's attack planes, including all of the Su-25 Frogfoots, from Syria on Wednesday.This announcement follows a March 14 declaration...
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'Even the stones are catching fire': A surgeon in Aleppo wrote a brutal op-ed...
Violence in Syria's largest city has escalated so dramatically that hospitals there are being forced "to choose patients to save because there aren’t enough doctors to treat everyone," a surgeon there...
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At least 28 killed in airstrike on refugee camp in northern Syria
AMMAN (Reuters) - Air strikes on a camp housing Syrians uprooted by war killed 28 people near the Turkish border on Thursday, a monitoring group said, and fighting raged in parts of northern Syria...
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'Totally unacceptable': US condemns Assad's call for victory over Aleppo
The United States condemned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's statement that his goal is a final victory over the city of Aleppo and urged Russia to exert its influence over Damascus to ensure a...
View ArticleA Russian orchestra threw a surprise concert in the ancient city of Palmyra
Russia's Mariinsky Orchestra performed in the amphitheatre of the Syrian city of Palmyra. Vladimir Putin watched via video link.Produced by Claudia RomeoJoin the conversation about this story »
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Russian orchestra performs amid Syria's ruins as airstrike nearby kills 28
A renowned Russian conductor led a triumphant concert Thursday in the ruins of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, once terrorized by the Islamic State group, even as an airstrike on a refugee camp in...
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Syria denies committing a 'deliberate war crime' by bombing refugee camp
The Syrian military denied on Friday it had conducted air strikes on a camp near the Turkish border that killed at least 28 people, but a top UN official said initial reports suggested a government...
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Tons of the missing child migrants entering Europe are getting sexually...
Mohamed Keita started taking pictures at Rome's Termini station with a disposable camera. He photographed his neighbors, the people who lived and slept next to him during the months he spent living on...
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Here's what it's like inside Aleppo, where a shaky truce has begun
After nearly two weeks of brutal shelling and urban combat left hundreds of people dead in the Syrian city of Aleppo, Russia and the United States declared a tentative truce in the city on...
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3 Spanish journalists kidnapped in Syria freed
MADRID (Reuters) - Three Spanish freelance journalists who went missing in Syria last year and were believed to have been kidnapped have been released, the Spanish government said on Saturday.The three...
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Turkish military killed 55 ISIS fighters near Aleppo as it battles with its...
The Turkish military killed 55 ISIS (also known as Islamic State, ISIL, and Daesh) fighters north of the Syrian city of Aleppo on Saturday evening, according to a report from Reuters.The report, citing...
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One photo shows the incredible firepower of the US-led coalition against ISIS
In the photo below, soldiers and airmen from the international coalition to thwart ISIS stand in front of some of the most powerful military aircraft in the world.From left to right, we see a U-2 spy...
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Iran vows Syrian rebels will pay a 'heavy price' after suffering major losses
BEIRUT — Top officials in Tehran have vowed to exact revenge for the heavy losses suffered by Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) troops in a battle in which Islamist fighters seized a village south...
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A Human Rights Watch report accuses Turkish guards of killing and injuring...
Turkish border guards shot and beat up Syrian asylum seekers and smugglers, the human rights organisation Human Rights Watch claimed in a report published on Tuesday.The report, for which Human Rights...
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Watch a US-led airstrike destroy one of ISIS's most dangerous weapons
The US military has released a video that shows the US-led anti-ISIS coalition obliterating an ISIS car bomb near Manbij, Syria.The airstrike was conducted on March 11 and was part of a larger...
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Hezbollah's top commander in Syria has been killed
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Top Hezbollah commander Mustafa Badreddine has been killed in an attack in Syria, the Lebanese Shi'ite group said on Friday, the biggest blow to the Iranian-backed organization since...
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How Russia allowed homegrown radicals to go fight in Syria
NOVOSASITLI, Russia (Reuters) - Four years ago, Saadu Sharapudinov was a wanted man in Russia. A member of an outlawed Islamist group, he was hiding in the forests of the North Caucasus, dodging...
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