Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that reports that hundreds of Russian mercenaries had been killed in Syria recently were an attempt to exploit the war there, the RIA news agency reported. About 300 men working for a Kremlin-linked Russian private military firm were...

Turkey never used chemical weapons in its operations in Syria, and takes the utmost care of civilians, its foreign minister said, after Syrian Kurdish forces and a monitoring group accused it of carrying out a gas attack in Syria's Afrin region. "It's just a fabricated story. Turkey has...

Syrian Kurdish forces and the Syrian regime have reached an agreement for the army to enter the Afrin region to help repel a Turkish offensive, a senior Kurdish official told Reuters Sunday. Badran Jia Kurd, an adviser to the Kurdish-led administration in north Syria, said army troops...

Zaman Al Wasl)- Large military reinforcements arrived to the edge of  embattled Eastern suburbs of Damascus  to back the regime forces fighting in the major offensive against rebel factions, rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday. Said Saif, the spokesman of the Ahmed...