(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian officials discussed with Bashar Assad in Damascus the need to de-escalate the situation in , northeast Syria, Russia’s foreign ministry said on Saturday, such a statement accompanied with heavy bombardment on northern Idlib province. Rescuing Civil...

A fragile ceasefire was holding along Turkey’s border with Syria on Saturday, two days after President Tayyip Erdogan agreed the truce to allow Kurdish forces time to pull back from Ankara’s cross-border assault. Erdogan agreed the truce during talks in Ankara on Thursday with U.S....

Turkey on Saturday accused Kurdish forces of violating an agreement to suspend its Syria offensive if they withdraw from a "safe zone" along the border. "The Turkish armed forces fully abide by the agreement," reached on Thursday with the United States, the defence ministry said in a...

Syrian Kurdish forces say Turkey is failing to abide by terms of a U.S.-brokered cease-fire, refusing to lift a siege it imposed on a key border town in northeastern Syria 30 hours after the truce went into effect. The Syrian Democratic Forces called Saturday on U.S. Vice President Mike...