Turkey plans to push Syrian regime forces away from its military observation posts in northwest Syria's Idlib region this week, President Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday, despite continued advances by Damascus's Russian-backed military. Nearly a million Syrians have been displaced in the last...

Syrian regime forces bombed civilian targets in the northwestern Idlib province Wednesday, pushing ahead with a fierce military campaign that has sent nearly a million people fleeing from their homes and killed hundreds over the past three months. Backed by Russian air power, Bashar...

Fourteen EU ministers called Wednesday for a ceasefire in the Syrian province of Idlib, where hundreds of thousands have been displaced by a Russian-backed Syrian offensive against rebels supported by Turkey. The violence in Syria's last rebel-held enclave has caused a humanitarian crisis...

Russia’s foreign ministry said it expected positive results from talks with Turkey on Wednesday on Syria’s Idlib province, the RIA news agency cited Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov as saying. A Russian delegation was expected to visit Turkey on Wednesday for talks aimed at easing...

Turkey will not take the "smallest step back" in Syria's last rebel bastion of Idlib, where several of its army posts have been surrounded, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday. "We will not take a smallest step back in Idlib, we will certainly push the regime outside the borders...

Airstrikes on northern Idlib province  Syria killed at least 21 people Tuesday, including seven children, two students and two teachers, opposition activists said, as Russian-led forces captured a town considered a symbol of the uprising against Bashar Assad. The capture of Kafranbel...

Syrian regime forces recaptured Kafranbel in Idlib province Tuesday, a war monitor said, a symbolic victory in a town that was among the first to rebel against Damascus. Supported by Russian air strikes, pro-regime forces advancing on the last major rebel-held bastion in northwest Syria...

Regime air strikes and artillery fire in northwestern Syria, including on schools in the city of Idlib, killed 21 civilians on Tuesday, activists and a war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said eight children were among those killed in the raids on Idlib city and...

Russia is gearing up for a multilateral meeting on Syria with Iran and Turkey, the Kremlin spokesman said Tuesday. When asked about a possible meeting between Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russia's President Vladimir Putin on March 5, Dmitry Peskov said they are eyeing another...

At least four civilians, including one student and two teachers, were killed by Syrian regime attacks on four schools in Syria’s northern Idlib province, a Syrian civil defense group said Tuesday. The Assad regime and Iran-backed regime forces carried out bomb attacks in the center of...

Syrian regime warplanes supported by Russian warplanes have directly targeted Turkish observation points in Idlib, Syrian media outlets reported. According to the reports, Turkish observation posts in the towns of Kansafra and Al-Baara were targeted by Syrian and Russian warplanes....

As Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime presses ahead with a relentless campaign, his counterpart across the border in Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan is battling to avoid being the big loser in the battle for the last rebel bastion of Idlib. Erdogan, who has been siding with the rebels...

The United Nations is in talks with Turkey to boost cross-border aid flows into northwest Syria and allow more evacuations of those in urgent need of medical help, such as babies in incubators, as shelling draws closer. More than three million people are trapped in northwest Syria between...

The "best alternative" to prevent an all-out humanitarian catastrophe in northwestern Syria's Idlib province is to institute a safe zone in the region, the Syria envoy under President Barack Obama said in remarks published Monday. "The best option that eschews direct U.S. military...

Amid intensifying fighting in recent weeks in Idlib and Aleppo, in which two Syrian journalists were killed and eight were injured, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) voices concern about the risks for reporters covering military operations in Syria and calls for every effort to be made to...

Russia and Turkey are preparing talks on how to de-escalate fighting in Syria’s Idlib province, TASS news agency reported on Monday, citing Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. “Another series of consultations, which we hope will lead us to an agreement on how to ensure that this is...

 Five civilians died Monday in Russian air strikes backing Syrian regime forces as they chip away at the country's last major rebel bastion, a war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the deadly raids hit the area of Jabal al-Zawiya in the south of the...

Six people have been killed in an Israeli air attack on Damascus, a war monitor said on Monday, as Israel confirmed raids on the Syrian capital as well as on the besieged Gaza Strip.  A statement from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) armed group on Monday said two men, who were...

The Israel military said early Monday that it struck Palestinian militants targets in Gaza and Syria in response to rockets fired toward southern Israel on Sunday evening, hours after Israel said it killed a Palestinian militant who tried to place a bomb along the Israel-Gaza barrier fence....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Heavy clashes reported in the southern countryside of Idlib province between regime forces and Turkish-backed factions as Damascus mobilizes troops to invade the town of Kafranbel, local activists said Sunday.  Bashar al-Assad’s forces have captured three...