Foreign fighters still joining IS in Syria: US general... Syrian government forces have been fighting the Islamic State group in Sweida's arid plains since jihadists carried out a wave of attacks in the mainly Druze province on July 25, killing 250 people. Foreign fighters continue to flow into Syria to joi
Putin downplays shootdown of Russian plane off Syria... A Russian reconnaissance aircraft was shot down by Syrian forces responding to an Israeli airstrike, killing all 15 people aboard, in what President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday was "a chain of tragic accidental circumstances."
Russia downs drone near its Syria air base... Russia's military said it had shot down a drone that came close to its Syrian air base at Hmeimim on Saturday and was launched from the Idlib "de-escalation" zone controlled by what Moscow calls "illegal military groups", TASS agency r