The U.S. and Turkey launched a second round of joint patrols in northeastern Syria Tuesday as part of plans to create a "safe" buffer zone, the Turkish defense ministry said. Four Turkish armored vehicles crossed the border to join U.S. forces in Syria, state news agency Anadolu said,...

More than 3,700 civilians have been killed in Syria since the U.S.-led Global Coalition against Daesh launched an anti-terror campaign in 2014, a U.K.-based human rights group said on Monday. In a report marking the fifth year of the U.S.-led campaign in Syria, the Syrian Human Rights...

Syria's foreign minister Walid al-Moallem discussed Monday the formation of a constitutional committee and its work with U.N. special envoy Geir Pedersen who said that "all the outstanding issues" related to it were being addressed in talks. Pedersen's visit to Syria comes a week after...

The U.N. special envoy for Syria arrived in Damascus on Sunday for fresh talks on forming a committee tasked with drafting a new constitution for the war-ravaged country. Geir Pedersen was set to meet with Foreign Minister Walid Muallem on Monday to discuss the committee, the U.N.-backed...