JERUSALEM, UNDEFINED- Fire from Syria hit the Israeli-held zone of the Golan Heights on Wednesday, the military said, the latest in a string of incidents ratcheting up tension between the uneasy...

ALEPPO, SYRIA, Karam al-Masri and Maher al-Mounes- UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday pressed Russia and the United States to do more to ensure the delivery of much-needed aid to Syrians as a...

TRIPOLI, LIBYA, Mohamad Ali Harissi- Forces opposed to Libya's unity government on Tuesday seized a fourth oil port, completing their takeover of vital installations in the North African country's...

ALEPPO, SYRIA, Karam al-Masri and Maher al-Mounes- The UN's Syria envoy on Tuesday applauded a "significant drop" in violence through the first 24 hours of a fragile ceasefire but said security...

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES- The Pentagon said Tuesday it launched various strikes on Islamic State group forces in Syria over the past several days, including hits on some targets that "may have...

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES- The Pentagon on Monday confirmed that a US air strike killed Islamic State leader and spokesman Abu Mohamed al-Adnani in northern Syria last month. "The strike near Al Bab,...

ALEPPO, SYRIA, Karam al-Masri and Maher al-Mounes- A US- and Russia-brokered ceasefire dubbed by Washington as maybe the "last chance to save Syria" took effect at sundown on Monday, amid scepticism...

BEIRUT, LEBANON- An influential Syrian rebel group, the hardline Islamist Ahrar al-Sham, on Sunday rejected the truce deal brokered by Russia and the United States hours before it was due to begin. A...

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES, Nicolas Revise- The 9/11 attacks of 2001 forever changed America and upended its foreign and national security policy, leaving the country for the past 15 years in a war...