Turkey's Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said Wednesday that talks with the U.S. aimed at averting the need for a Turkish military intervention into northern Syria had been "positive," according to state news agency Anadolu. "We witnessed with satisfaction that our partners grew closer to our...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- One person was killed and two more people were wounded Tuesday by an improvised explosive device in eastern Raqqa province, a citizen journalist group said. Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently said Mohamed al-Aydan, local official in the Kurdish Democratic Union was...

Regime loyalists captured a town and a village from militants and allied rebels in northwest Syria Wednesday, after fierce clashes that killed nearly 30 combatants overnight, an activist group said. The town of Al-Zakat and the Al-Arbaeen village in Hama province came under regime control...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian security services arrested three former rebels in Douma town, northeast Damascus despite reaching a reconciliation deal with regime in 2018, local activists said. The arrest of former Jaish al-Islam fighters has accompanied with a wide-scale raids tracking wanted...