Syria

Refugees will be chosen from UN camps and vetted by US security, intelligence agencies

Devlet Bahceli warns that Erdogan's plan would cheapen Turkish citizenship and cause ethnic conflict

According to security sources attack targeted the Cevizpinar village outpost, near the border with Syria

Thirty-four civilians, including four children, were killed and 200 others wounded by rebel shelling

Rebel group Jaish al Islam claims four of its fighters killed trying to stop the army from cutting the Castello Road

Tehran rejects any coordination with the US-led coalition that is also bombing the 'jihadists' in Syria and Iraq

Sajad Gharibi says he wants to defend Shia Shrines in Syria against IS and other attackers

The conflict in Syria, which has lasted five years, has killed more than 280,000 people

Health workers were reported to have pulled bodies of children from under rubble, mostly under Islamic State control

Aleppo has been a key battleground ever since rebels seized eastern neighbourhoods of the city the following year.

Assad has tasked former electricity minister Imad Khamis Khamis with forming a new government

The show was organised by the United Nation's refugee agency UNHCR to mark World Refugee Day on Monday

Three Sotoro members were killed and five wounded," a security source said

Turkey has repeatedly denied accusations of its security forces firing on Syrians trying to cross the frontier

Observatory group reports higher toll of at least 12 people killed and 30 wounded in the blasts

The advance took the army to within 24 kilometresof Lake Assad, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

World powers decided last month that if aid continued to be blocked, the United Nations would begin airdrops on June 1

The Pentagon has deployed more than 200 special forces troops alongside the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)

More than 280,000 people have been killed in Syria since the civil war erupted in 2011

Last December, the Southeast Asian country accepted the first batch of 11 migrants who had relatives in Malaysia

Death toll from bombings claimed by the Islamic State hits 154

General Joseph Votel, head of US Central Command, met US military advisors working with Syrian Arab fighters

US officials travelling with Kerry say Washington still insists Assad should go

Riyadh has been a key supporter of rebels fighting to overthrow the Damascus regime of President Bashar al Assad

State television also reported dead and wounded in the suicide attack and car bombing in Homs province

The Russian defence ministry said its ceasefire monitors had agreed with their US to oversee truce

At least 246 civilians have died in shelling, rocket fire and air strikes in both sides of the city since April 22

Four others were wounded in the attack on the city's demarcation line, says commander of Kurdish police

The attack comes days after a strike destroyed a hospital, killing two doctors and sparking an international outcry

The city's last pediatrician was also killed in the strike

The UN's Syria envoy said Thursday he planned to hold another round of peace talks next month

Alloush is the chief negotiator for the High Negotiations Committee, the war-torn country's main opposition group

More than 270,000 people have been killed and millions more been forced to flee their homes since the conflict erupted

The deployment will increase US forces in Syria to about 300 to accelerate recent gains against Islamic State

The death toll is expected to rise

Assad's Baath movement and allies running under "National Unity" coalition won 200 of the parliament's 250 seats

Netanyahu's comments come amid a fragile ceasefire in Syria and indirect negotiations in Switzerland

Three families of Syrian refugees boarded Pope Francis's plane heading back to the Vatican

When her best friend was married off before she turned 14, Omaima decided to do something against early marriages

The Islamic State counterattack has rolled back rebel gains in the border area

The Islamic State group's ranks have been pared back by international and local military action in Iraq and Syria

Turkish armed forces strike Islamic State targets around northern Syrian town of Azaz

The crash takes Russia's official combat death toll in Syria to seven

Deir al-Zor is important for Islamic State, linking its de facto capital in Raqqa with fighters in Iraq

Syria's conflict erupted in March 2011 with anti-government protests but has since evolved into a multi-front war

Neither Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front nor IS are included in a truce brokered by the US and Russia

They have found streets filled with rubble, ransacked houses with holes blasted in them and a ghost town

He was a senior member of al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate the Nusra Front's policy-making Shura Council

Syrian state media did not disclose how many casualties were sustained in the attack

Turkish Interior Minister Efkan Ala has said his country is ready to receive 500 people