ALEPO: Government air strikes hit rebel-held areas of Aleppo on Saturday as rockets fired by insurgents pounded neighborhoods under state control, part of escalating violence in northern Syria that has undermined a truce agreement.
WASHINGTON: The United States has carried out 70 to 80 air strikes against Islamic State in Afghanistan in the three months since U.S. forces were given broader authority to target the militants, a U.S. military spokesman said on Thursday.
DAMASCUS: President Bashar al-Assad has said he is willing to hold early presidential elections, but sharp differences over his future are still hampering efforts to resolve Syria's five-year civil war.
ANKARA: Turkey's army said on Saturday it killed 67 Kurdish militants in air strikes on camps and ammunition storage sites in neighboring northern Iraq on Wednesday.
PESHAWAR: The Pakistani military's latest ground and aerial onslaught in the troubled northwest killed at least 34 Islamist militants Saturday while five of its troops also died during clashes, security officials said.
BEIRUT: Syria's opposition on Saturday said it had agreed to the "possibility" of a temporary truce, provided there were guarantees Damascus's allies including Russia would cease fire, sieges were lifted and aid deliveries allowed country-wide.
BAGHDAD: A new message purporting to come from the leader of Islamic State said air strikes by Russia and a U.S.-led coalition had failed to weaken the group.
RAQQA: At least 32 Islamic State fighters were killed and 40 more wounded in Syria's Raqqa province on Sunday, in a series of air strikes believed to be carried out by a U.S.-led coalition targeting the jihadists, a monitoring group said.
AKROTIRI, CYPRUS/LONDON: British bombers made their first strikes on Syria on Thursday, just hours after parliament voted to target Islamic State targets in Syria, a government source said.
BEIRUT: Russian air strikes in support of the Syrian government have killed more than 1,500 people, a third of them civilians, since they began two months ago, a monitor said Monday.
DAMASCUS: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday said his enemies have increased support for rebels fighting his regime as loyalists backed by Russia and Iran push an offensive to regain lost territory.
DAMASCUS: Syrian government troops are advancing on "nearly every front" thanks to Russian air strikes that began in September, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with Chinese television released Sunday.
PESHAWAR: At least 22 militants were killed Saturday when Pakistan Air Force (PAF) fighter jets bombarded six insurgent hideouts on the country's troubled northwest frontier bordering Afghanistan, security officials said.
DUBAI: U.S. and coalition forces are likely to increase air strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria in coming weeks after a lull in September and October, the head of U.S. Air Forces Central Command said Saturday.
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Air Force (PAF) jets on Saturday bombarded militant hideouts in a restive northwestern tribal area bordering Afghanistan killing at least 15 suspected insurgents, security officials said.
WASHINGTON: The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State conducted 11 air strikes in Iraq and three in Syria on Monday, according to the task force organizing the operation.
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin said that Russia would not deploy ground troops to Syria, where it has been conducting air strikes against what it says are Islamic State targets.