The United States military on Friday confirmed their forces killed a senior Islamic State (ISIS) member in northwest Syria’s Idlib province earlier this week, originally reported by Syrian media.

The talks in Paris brokered by the United States were the latest effort to reduce tensions between the two longstanding foes, and came after Israel launched airstrikes on the Syrian capital last month.

The Defense Department did not reveal the name of the ISIS official, but said the raid took place on Tuesday, Aug. 19. The official has been identified as a key financier who helped orchestrate attacks in Syria and Iraq.

For the past several decades, the United States and Israel have tried to isolate Syria in the Middle East. Only U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, after the October War in 1973, tried and ...

The rebel group that spearheaded the assault on Damascus that forced Assad to flee — Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS — is designated a foreign terrorist organization by the United States and others.

Syria's new president pledged to disband all militias in this multi-ethnic, multi-sectarian country after the collapse of the Bashar al-Assad regime last December.

The celebrations that ended the more than half-century of Assad family tyranny in Syria are over. In the short term, Russia and Iran are losers; Turkey is the winner. After all, Turkey was the ...