Airstrikes targeted Syria's last major rebel stronghold in the northwestern province of Idlib on Monday, killing at least nine people, including a woman and her child, opposition activists sad. The attacks come as regime forces turn their focus on another rebel-held town in Idlib,...

 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that the Russian-backed Syrian regime offensive in Idlib did not violate any agreements with Turkey, the RIA news agency reported. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday that...

Turkish ground troops will enter a planned safe zone in northern Syria "very soon," President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, after a joint operation centre with the United States opened at the weekend. Turkey and the United States agreed earlier this month to set up the joint centre for the...

Syrian soldier Ahmad Amuri rolls up on a motorbike to hand water bottles to comrades standing guard under pistachio trees, just a few dozen metres from a Turkish observation point in northwest Syria. President Bashar al-Assad's troops seized the town of Morek from jihadists and allied...