Syria's main opposition group has urged US president-elect Donald Trump to protect civilians and help end the bloodshed in the country, devastated by five years of war. Riad Hijab, head of the opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC), said Syrian civilians were in urgent need of...

Iraqi troops consolidated gains in their advance on the northern city of Mosul on Thursday, regrouping as they clear neighborhoods and houses once occupied by the Islamic State group. In Mosul proper, where troops have a foothold in a sliver of territory in the city's east, the special...

(Economist)- IT IS hard to think of a president-elect less versed in the workings of the world than Donald Trump; or of one more willing to upturn the global order that America has shaped in the seven decades since the end of the second world war. He has so far described his foreign policy in...

A commander of the YPG terrorist organization was killed late Wednesday in an attack in northern Syria, local sources said. Haji Kurkhan, codenamed “Ali Botan,” was responsible for the special units of the YPG terrorist organization – the military wing of the terrorist PKK/PYD. His...