Islamist-led rebels are pressing a major offensive in northern Syria in which they seized the second city Aleppo from the government for the first time since civil war erupted in 2011.

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Some violations of the truce, and some amount of violence, are to be expected, analysts say, and do not necessarily mean the ...

The strikes came after the Lebanese militant group fired a volley of projectiles earlier on Monday as a warning over what it ...

Iraq will not act as a mere spectator in Syria where it believes groups and sects are victims of ethnic cleansing, Iraq's ...