The Russian air force and Syrian military are preparing a joint operation to take Aleppo from rebels...
The Russian air force and Syrian military are preparing a joint operation to take Aleppo from rebels, the Syrian prime minister was quoted saying on Sunday, and an opposition official said a ceasefire was on the verge of collapse.
At least 24 Islamic State group fighters and eight civilians were killed in air strikes Sunday on Syria's Raqqa, the de facto capital of IS, a monitor said.
Hundreds of displaced Syrian residents of Palmyra returned home Saturday to inspect their houses for the first time since the Russian-backed army captured it from the Islamic State group two weeks ago.
Syrian mediators reached an agreement Friday for the release of some 300 cement workers kidnapped by the Islamic State group, a monitor said, but it was unclear exactly how many were freed.
A Lebanese military court sentenced former information minister Michel Samaha to 13 years in prison with hard labour for attempting to carry out "terrorist acts", a judicial source said.
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday urged Iran to help end the wars raging in Yemen and Syria, criticising the Islamic republic's "destabilising actions" in the Middle East.
Copenhagen police said on Thursday they had detained four people on suspicion of joining the Islamic State group in Syria and seized weapons and ammunition in a search linked to the arrests.
Around 250 Syrian civilians are feared kidnapped after an attack by the Islamic State jihadist group on a cement factory east of Damascus, residents told AFP on Thursday.
Air strikes targeting oil facilities controlled by the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq have greatly eroded the jihadists' production capabilities and almost halted exports, French industry experts have told a parliamentary committee.
Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate confirmed on Wednesday the death of its spokesman Abu Firas al-Suri in a US air strike earlier this week.
The Syrian army and its allies launched a major attack on insurgents south of Aleppo, described as the fiercest government assault in the area since an agreement to ease the fighting came into effect in February.
