Syrian Kurdish fighters accused the Turkish army Wednesday of shelling a primary school and a water plant in Syria's northern Afrin region. Nouri Mahmoud, spokesman of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, said Turkish forces and their Syrian insurgent allies damaged the water plant...

THE HAGUE: International watchdog OPCW said Wednesday it is probing "all credible allegations" of the use of chemical weapons in Syria, amid growing reports of their alleged deployment by the Damascus regime. A fact-finding mission from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical...

MOSCOW: Russia is talking to Turkey about gaining access to the crash site of a Russian SU-25 jet downed near Idlib in northern Syria, Interfax news agency cited Vladimir Shamanov, head of the Russian parliament's defense committee, as saying Wednesday.

Air strikes killed 23 civilians including five children in a rural part of the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region near Damascus Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "The death toll from air strikes that targeted Eastern Ghouta villages increased to 23 people, including...