
Their footage showed men shaving their beards and veiled women setting fire to niqabs they were forced to wear in...

Tabqa would be a difficult military target because Islamic State has large stocks of weapons there.

"We have grave differences with the Russians in terms of both the parties we support but also the process that is required...

Spokesman said U.N. aid had reached more than one million people this year in Syria

Experts say the Turkish offensive has again exposed the vastly different, often competing objectives of America's allies in the...

Washington hopes that it will help launch talks on a political transition in Syria.

"This callous carnage that is Syria has long since moved from cynical to sinful."

Russia's Defence Ministry said that SU-34 fighter bombers flying from Iran's Hamadan air base had struck Islamic State targets...

It is estimated the death toll since the start of the conflict at abound 430,000. About 11 million people have...

But distinguishing rebels protected by the ceasefire from jihadists who are excluded from it is tricky

The ceasefire will not apply to the jihadist groups Islamic State or Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, known as the Nusra...

God had granted fighters "a glorious victory in the battle to break the siege of Aleppo," the head of Al...

Kerry said the "bedrock" of the new deal was an agreement that the Syrian government would not fly combat missions...


He was a founding member of Nusra Front, Al Qaeda's powerful Syrian branch, and had been among the jihadists who fought...