Israel is prepared to open its side of the crossing point with Syria following the return of the UN peacekeepers to the Golan Heights after four years, the army said Saturday. Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman "authorised the reopening of the Alpha gate of the Quneitra Crossing between...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 90 Iraqi refugee families have returned home back on Sunday, leaving the Kurdish-held Hawl camp in northeastern Hasaka province, local activists said. The seventh batch of the Iraqi displaced will settle south of the city of Mosul in Nineveh province. The...

A Syrian rebel alliance has not pulled any heavy arms from the country's north, its spokesman told AFP Sunday, denying reports it had begun implementing a demilitarization deal there. Moscow and Ankara reached a deal earlier this month to create a buffer zone around the opposition...

Pro-Turkey rebels began Sunday withdrawing from areas in northern Syria under a deal brokered by Ankara and Moscow to avert a large-scale military assault on the country's last major opposition stronghold, a monitor said. Fighters from the Faylaq al-Sham group "began pulling out of...