Syrian regime forces and rebels waged fierce battles north of Aleppo on Friday, a week into a Russian-backed offensive by the Syrian army to take the entire city. Syrian government forces made a significant advance on Thursday north of Aleppo, capturing the Handarat refugee camp, a few...

An offensive to retake the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State using Kurdish militia fighters would trigger an ethnic conflict there, a senior Turkish official said and warned that the operation should avoid triggering further divisions. The official said Syrian Kurdish YPG has so far...

(Daily Sabah)- Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Thursday Turkey would cooperate with Russia "if Russia is sincere in cooperating to establish a permanent cease-fire and transporting humanitarian aid to Syria." Çavuşoğlu's comments were made in Ankara during a joint press meeting...

Syrian fighter jets killed 20 people and injured 24 more with vacuum bombs dropped in the northwestern city of Idlib and surrounding districts late on Thursday. A civil defense official in Idlib, Leys el-Faris, told Anadolu Agency that Syrian jets killed seven people in the city, eight in...