More than 1,500 Kurdish fighters have been killed in a two-month assault by Turkish forces and allied Syrian rebels on the Kurdish enclave of Afrin, a monitor said Sunday. Most of them were killed air strikes and artillery fire, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human...

 Turkish forces and their Syrian rebel allies swept into the northwestern Syrian town of Afrin on Sunday, taking control of the town center after Kurdish YPG forces pulled out, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. A spokesman for the rebel fighters said they entered Afrin...

The Kurdish administration of Afrin region indicated Sunday that Kurdish-dominated forces fighting Turkey-backed groups in the area will shift from direct confrontation to guerrilla tactics. "Our forces are present all over Afrin's geography. These forces will strike the positions of...

Bashar Assad on Sunday visited his army positions in Eastern Ghouta, the  dictator's  Telegram account said. "In the line of fire in Eastern Ghouta ... President Assad with heroes of the Syrian Arab army," a caption said next to photographs of Assad in a crowd of men in...