The U.S. is pursuing several goals by forming a border army in Syria, Russian experts told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday. On Sunday, the U.S.-led coalition spokesman Ryan Dillon announced the plan to establish a 30,000-strong new border security force with the SDF -- the U.S.-backed group...

Seven civilians have been killed by Russian airstrikes in the Khan Shaykhun district of Syria's Idlib province, which is part of a de-escalation zone in which fighting is banned, a local civil-defense official told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday. According to the official, three districts...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources said the newly US-formed border force will depend on Arab fighters not only the the Kurdish militias where the forces of 30,000 personnel will be deployed along the border with Iraq and Turkey. Most of the fighters will be recruited from the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebels shot down a Syrian fighter jet, mig-23bn, in northern Hama province last Thursday amid blackout by regime media, sources said. The pilot Abdul Karim Alia was escaped by regime forces in the eastern countryside of Hama before being held captive by rebels....