Government forces seized a strategic town and oil fields Sunday in northeastern Syria, part of an ongoing push against Kurdish-led forces east of the Euphrates River.

After weeks of on-and-off clashes, the Syrian government and a Kurdish-led militia agreed on Sunday to an immediate ceasefire and to merge the militia fully into the national military forces, accordin...

An Associated Press reporter saw on Saturday government tanks, armored personnel carriers and other vehicles, including pickup trucks with heavy machine-guns mounted on top of them, rolling toward the...