Syrian troops fighting Kurdish forces in north-eastern Syria have seized the country's largest oilfield. The Omar facility and nearby gas fields are under army control after the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) pulled back, officials and monitors say. Earlier the army captured the strategic Tabqa dam on the Euphrates river.

Syrian troops have seized the country's largest oil field as well as a gas field after fighting US-backed Kurdish-led forces.

The tribal fighters allied with the Damascus-based government have taken control of the a-Omar oil field and the Conoco gas field, added the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that relies on a networ...

U.S. Central Command, which oversees U.S. military operations in the Middle East, conducted the strike on Jan. 16, killing Bilal Hasan al-Jasim, authorities said.

A third round of retaliatory strikes by the U.S. in Syria resulted in the death of an Al-Qaeda-affiliated leader, who officials say had a direct tie to the Islamic State member responsible for last mo...