Trapped in a basement for three days with his family as Turkey shelled their northern Syrian hometown of Jandairis, Merhi Hassan fled just in time to escape bombardment that almost killed his elderly father. The family piled into a rusted pickup truck with whatever they could scavenge...

The Syrian opposition will not attend a peace conference Russia is hosting next week, a spokesman said on Saturday, dismissing the meeting as an attempt by the Syrian government’s close ally to “sideline” the current United Nations peace process. He was speaking at the end...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday Turkish forces would sweep Kurdish fighters from the Syrian border and could push all the way east to the frontier with Iraq - a move which risks a possible confrontation with U.S. forces allied to the Kurds. The Turkish offensive in northwest...

The Syrian opposition delegation at peace talks in Vienna received a pledge Friday from Russia that it would press the Syrian army to enforce a ceasefire in the besieged enclave of eastern Ghouta, an opposition spokesman said Friday. Syrian army and Russian jets have for the last two...