Around 500 Syrian fighters graduated on Saturday from a U.S.-led training course aimed at establishing a controversial "border security force" in the country's north. Last week, the U.S.-led coalition battling Daesh (ISIS) announced it had begun forming a 30,000-strong security force to...

Concerned over the devastating impact of escalating violence in Syria, where dozens of people in eastern Ghouta have been killed in recent airstrikes, and schools and hospitals are being deliberately destroyed, senior United Nations officials have underscored the obligation on all parties to...

Turkey’s army said it shelled Kurdish positions in Syria’s Afrin region on Friday and Saturday, hitting shelters and hideouts used by militants from three groups, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), PYD and YPG. The militants had earlier fired on Turkish positions, the army said...

The Lebanese Army will take new measures to control illegal smuggling routes along Lebanon’s eastern border with Syria after 13 Syrian nationals died crossing the mountains into the country Friday, a military source said.