US Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday warned there was "a lot more work to do" for a ceasefire in Syria, as Kurdish-led forces seized a key town from the Islamic State group. "Everyone recognises the complexity of this endeavour, and there is certainly a lot more work to do,"...

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said moderate Syrian rebels should be armed with surface-to-air missiles against the Russian-backed Syrian army, a German news weekly reported Friday. Anti-aircraft weapons could tip the scales on the battlefield as they did in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan in the...

(The Guardian)- A Syrian journalist who was raised in Britain, and who has been living for five years in Turkey, was detained by the Turkish immigration authorities on Wednesday (17 February) after applying for residency. The reasons for the arrest of Rami Jarrah are unclear although a...

A Kurdish-led alliance backed by U.S.-led strikes seized a stronghold of ISIS in northeastern Syria on Friday, activists said. The Syrian Democratic Forces were now in full control of Al-Shadadi in Hassakeh province, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said. The...