The White House Monday urged Turkey to exercise restraint after Turkish forces launched a military campaign in Syria's Afrin region, warning that the campaign risked exacerbating a humanitarian crisis and disrupting what had been a stable area. "We urge Turkey to exercise restraint in...

The U.S. government's aid chief, Mark Green, made an unannounced visit to Raqqa in Syria Monday, the most senior U.S. civilian official to visit the war-struck city months after American-backed militia retook the area from Daesh (ISIS). Green was accompanied by the head of the U.S....

Russia said Monday it had invited Kurds to take part in an upcoming Syrian peace congress in Sochi, despite a Turkish offensive against Kurdish militia in northern Syria. Together with regime backer Iran and rebel supporter Turkey, Russia - a key backer of Syrian President Bashar Assad...

The United Nations is ready to help people who might flee from the Afrin enclave, where Turkish troops are on the offensive against Kurdish fighters, the top U.N. official in Syria said Monday. Ali al-Zatari told The Associated Press in his office in western Damascus that they are...