Bashar al-Assad will not run for office following Syria’s post-conflict transition, Turkish Foreign Minister Feridun Sinirlioglu said Monday. Sinirlioglu told reporters at the closing of the G20 summit in Antalya that Assad will leave office "within the six-month transition period" and a...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke with the Syrian Opposition Coalition president on the importance of next steps in Syria following a meeting of the International Syria Support Group in Vienna on Saturday, the State Department said. In a call on Monday, Kerry and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Al Qaeda's Syria branch, the Nusra Front, said Sunday it has killed the commander of Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade, an ISIS loyal group operating in southern province of Daraa. The dominant jihadi group said on Twitter that ISIS man in Daraa Abu Ali al Braidi, (Dubbed: Al Khal),...

French fighter jets launched their biggest raids in Syria to date targeting the Islamic State's stronghold in Raqqa just two days after the group claimed coordinated attacks in Paris that killed more than 130 people, the defence ministry said. "The raid ... including 10 fighter jets, was...