Turkey's Syria offensive has created fresh divisions within NATO and, while there is no chance of Ankara being thrown out, the crisis adds to pressures on the alliance as it heads towards a crucial summit in December. Ankara's assault on Kurdish forces who played a key role in the fight...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser flew to Turkey on Wednesday as part of an emergency delegation to try to persuade Ankara to halt an assault on northern Syria that has forced Washington into an abrupt retreat. Robert O’Brien, who has been national security adviser...

United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen held talks with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem in Damascus on Wednesday, his spokeswoman said. Pedersen was expected to raise Turkey’s week-old incursion in northeastern Syria, diplomats said. His trip had been planned to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Bashar al-Assad has appointed Brigadier General Ahmad Ibrahim al-Khalil as head of the Military Intelligence Branch 243 in eastern Deir Ezzor province, replacing Yasin Dhahi, a pro-Iran general, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The shift came over a Russian request to...