Syrian rebels backed by Turkish forces have taken some towns near northern Syria's Manbij, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, marking their latest advance against ISIS militants south of Turkey's border. Erdogan made the comment in a speech broadcast live on television. The...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said on Monday there are so far about 465,000 people killed and missing in Syria's civil war. The war began six years ago on Wednesday with protests against President Bashar al-Assad's government. It has since dragged in...

Syria's future will be decided only after "getting rid of extremists" and achieving political reconciliation, the country's President Bashar Assad said in an interview published Monday. As the war that has ravaged his country approaches its seventh year, Assad told reporters it was "still...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Russian-brokered evacuation deal reached between rebels of al-Waer neighborhood, last stronghold in central Homs city, and with regime after years of bombing and severe siege, local reporter said Monday. Russia says about 1500 people, including 500 rebel fighters, to leave...