Topic: Jabhat Fateh al-Sham

More than 30 people were killed in a pair of suicide bombing targeting security bases in western Syria.

A sharp escalation in the United States' largely covert military campaign to cripple the Islamic State has taken a withering toll on the group.

Russia rejected an assertion by U.S. President Donald Trump, who called Iran the world's foremost terrorist state.

Syrian officials accused Israel of bombing a military airport on Friday, in what they say is an effort to help groups hostile to Bashar al-Assad's government.

Rebel groups in Syria paused peace talks Monday and accused the Syrian regime of violating a U.N. approved ceasefire negotiated with Russia and Turkey.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said a cease-fire agreement between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and rebel groups has been reached.

When Hezbollah went to war with Israel in 2006, estimates suggest it had about 13,000 short-range rockets. Now it could have more than 100,000.

The Syrian Army and its Russian al­lies will likely retake the dwin­dling rebel-held eastern sector of Aleppo before Donald Trump is sworn in as U.S. president.

Government sources say Syria has retaken one-third of Aleppo that was controlled by rebels, while civilians have fled to surrounding cities already retaken.

As the Islamic State caliphate crumbles, al-Qaida is resurgent, deftly maneu­vering itself into the jihadist van­guard in Syria.