In Syria, US commandos are working with anti-IS fighters including a largely Kurdish group called the Syrian Democratic Forces to defeat th...

The US began training a small group of Syrian rebels in early May on the condition that they focus solely on defeating ISIS, The Wall Stree...

US President Barack Obama has announced that the US-led coalition was "intensifying" its efforts against the Islamic State in Syria.

Critics have called out Obama's seemingly myopic view of IS's strategy, and some have suggested that US consider committing ground troops t...

During the meeting at Pentagon, Obama was updated on military operations by the US and its international partners in Iraq and Syria.

US President Barack Obama today said the international community is united in its fight against the dreaded terror group.

Lawmakers are set to depart Washington next today and hit the campaign trail until the mid-term congressional elections on November 4.

Gone is the hesitation and reluctance in Congress to intervene, as it displayed last year when Obama wanted to strike regime targets.

White House and the Pentagon yesterday acknowledged such a secret operation in Syria to rescue American citizens taken hostage by the Islam...

Obama today tried to rally Congressional support for possible US military action against Syria ahead of a vote expected over the issue.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday that India was not in favour of armed action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

India today disfavoured any "military solution" to resolve the Syrian conflict and said it will prefer to await the full results of the UN ...

Inaction also "endangers our friends and our partners along Syria's borders... and risks emboldening Assad and his key allies - Hezbollah a...

It's a departure for Obama, who didn't seek similar approval when the US joined a UN-sanctioned bombing campaign in Libya, the report said.

Netanyahu today said Israel was prepared for "every possible scenario" in Syria after the US delayed a military strike in a surprise move t...

S Secretary of State John Kerry says there is “undeniable” evidence of a large-scale chemical weapons attack in Syria.

Asserting that chemical weapons were used in Syria by the embattled Assad regime, US Secretary of State John Kerry today termed the last we...