Turkey will keep supporting oppressed people irrespective of geographical boundaries, including those in Idlib, Syria, who have no links to terror groups, the country's Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. "The Turkish Armed Forces -- key to peace in our region -- stand by our brothers in...

 Russia on Wednesday has killed four civilians in fresh airstrikes on northwestern Idlib province, topping the death toll to 50 in the past 48 hours, activists said. The heavy aerial bombing on last rebel stronghold came as Syrian regime forces pushed on with their offensive,...

The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State said its troops opened fire on Wednesday at a checkpoint in northeast Syria after they came under small arms fire. The coalition said in a statement the situation was calmed down and the patrol returned to the base. Earlier, Syrian and...

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Turkey was not upholding agreements it made with Moscow to “neutralize” militants in the Syrian province of Idlib and that militant attacks on Syrian and Russian forces were continuing in the region. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow remained...

Syrian regime forces Wednesday pushed on with their offensive in the country's northwest, securing areas along a key national highway they seized, as tensions spiralled with Turkey which supports rebel groups. After a series of tit-for-tat attacks, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan...

Turkey's military will strike Syrian regime forces by air or ground anywhere in Syria if another Turkish soldier is hurt, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday. Erdogan said Turkey is determined to push Syrian government forces beyond Turkish observation posts in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's air power is not the only reason behind Bashar al-Assad's gains in northern Syria but the favor returns to the Russian-backed The 25th Special Missions Division, military experts say. The special task group, which was known as the Tiger Force led by Brigadier...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian regime airstrike on the northern city of Idlib killed 12 civilians, the Civil Defence Agency said Tuesday. Seven children were among the victims in the raid on the Industrical districy in the city. Meanwhile, the wave of displacement that has...

A wave of displacement that has seen around 700,000 people flee a regime offensive in Syria's Idlib region is the biggest of the nine-year-old conflict, the United Nations said Tuesday. "In just 10 weeks, since 1 December, some 690,000 people have been displaced from their homes in Idlib...

A Syrian military helicopter was shot down in northwest Idlib province on Tuesday, two Turkey-backed rebel commander said on Tuesday. The helicopter was downed south of Idlib city, where rebels supported by Turkish artillery were advancing near the town of Nairab to push back...

Syrian regime forces seized control of the entire length of the main Aleppo-Damascus highway Tuesday for the first time since 2012, after driving rebels from their last foothold on the road, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. The highway, the M5, runs all the way from...

A Russian team visiting Ankara to discuss the Syrian government offensive in the northwestern Idlib region has left, a Turkish diplomatic source said Tuesday, with no apparent agreement on how to halt clashes that killed 13 Turkish soldiers in a week. The Russians arrived in Ankara on...

Syrian regime forces seized control of the entire length of the main Aleppo-Damascus highway Tuesday for the first time since 2012, after driving rebels from their last foothold on the road, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. The highway, the M5, runs all the way from Aleppo...

Human Rights Watch called Tuesday for Damascus and the Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria to investigate the fate of thousands of people who went missing in the custody of the Islamic State group. More than 8,000 people, detained by IS when it controlled swathes of the north and...

Turkish forces have hit 115 Syrian regime targets and destroyed 101 of them in retaliation for an attack that killed five Turkish soldiers in Syria's rebel-held northwest, the Turkish Defence Ministry said Monday. The ministry said Turkish forces would continue to retaliate any attacks...

 Nearly 700,000 civilians have been displaced by a renewed Russian-backed Syrian government offensive against the rebel-held northwest since early December, including nearly 100,000 in the last week alone, the United Nations said on Monday. David Swanson, a spokesman for the U.N....

At least five Turkish troops were killed and as many injured in an attack by Bashar Assad's regime forces in northwestern Idlib province on Monday, the Turkish Defense Ministry said. This came after a similar attack by the regime forces last week in Idlib killed seven Turkish soldiers...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A bomb detonated on a truck containing diesel-filled barrels and killed eight civilians and wounded seven more, including children, in northwestern Aleppo region on Monday, the Turkish Defense Ministry said. The ministry said on its Twitter account that the Syrian...

A Russian delegation returned to Turkey Monday for further talks over rising tensions in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, after an initial round last week failed to yield results, Turkey's foreign minister said. An airstrike in a nearby rebel-held region, meanwhile, killed nine people...

Russian and regime bombardment on the last major rebel enclave in Syria has killed 29 civilians in a day, a monitor said Monday, as the regime's inexorable northward push raises tensions with Turkey. Six children were among nine civilians killed early Monday in raids on the village of Abin...