As Russian and Turkish leaders divvy up security roles in northeast Syria following an abrupt U.S. troop withdrawal, President Donald Trump is focused on oil fields elsewhere in the war-torn country. Trump spurred a fresh wave of criticism Thursday with a tweet noting that he had spoken...

Around 300 more Russian military police from the southern Russian region of Chechnya have arrived in Syria, the defence ministry said Friday, Interfax news agency reported. The military police will patrol specific regions and help with the withdrawal of Kurdish forces and their weapons...

A ceasefire in northeast Syria seems to be holding "by and large", as major powers gather in Geneva ahead of the first meeting of Syria's Constitutional Committee next week, the U.N. Special Envoy told Reuters on Thursday. Geir Pedersen said that envoys from 7 Arab and Western states...

Turkish forces and their allies attacked Syrian regime troops in northeastern Syria on Thursday, killing some of them, and they also clashed with Kurdish-led fighters, the state-run news agency and a war monitoring group said. The fighting underscored the risks of violence as multiple and...