Around 300 more Russian military police from the southern Russian region of Chechnya have arrived in Syria, the defence ministry said Friday, Interfax news agency reported. The military police will patrol specific regions and help with the withdrawal of Kurdish forces and their weapons...

A ceasefire in northeast Syria seems to be holding "by and large", as major powers gather in Geneva ahead of the first meeting of Syria's Constitutional Committee next week, the U.N. Special Envoy told Reuters on Thursday. Geir Pedersen said that envoys from 7 Arab and Western states...

Turkish forces and their allies attacked Syrian regime troops in northeastern Syria on Thursday, killing some of them, and they also clashed with Kurdish-led fighters, the state-run news agency and a war monitoring group said. The fighting underscored the risks of violence as multiple and...

(Zaman Al Wasl-AA)- Assad regime attacked a marketplace in de-escalation zone in embattled Syrian province of Idlib, according to the Syrian civil defense agency White Helmets on Thursday. At least ten people were killed and 14 more wounded during the artillery attack in the town of...

There were moments during the days-long Turkish siege of a Syrian hospital that Raman Ouso did not think he would get out alive. The 27-year-old nurse was part of a small team of medics that stayed to help the wounded in the town of Ras al-Ain in northern Syria earlier this month despite an...

NATO defence ministers Thursday slammed Turkey for its military operation in Syria conducted with Russia's help, but recognised there was little they could do to sanction their strategically important ally. The first day of a two-day meeting of the ministers in Brussels was dominated by the...

Kurds from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have withdrawn to 32 km (20 miles) away from the border with Turkey, Russia’s RIA news agency reported on Thursday, citing an SDF official. Kurds in the SDF group are ready to discuss joining the Syrian army once the crisis in Syria is...

Kurdish forces have begun withdrawing from areas near the Turkish border in Syria, the Interfax news agency cited Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin as saying Thursday. Moscow, a close Syrian ally, told Syrian Kurdish forces to withdraw from the border Wednesday as part of an...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A relative of Daesh family held by Turkish-backed rebels on Monday has recognised the wife of his brother-in-law who appeared in a video obtained by Zaman al-Wasl. Altan Altuntas, a citizen from Dagestan, said 'Tetey Omarova’ who appears in the second 55 , is the wife...

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper is expected to focus on Turkey’s recent offensive into northeastern Syria and the future of the fight against Islamic State when he meets with NATO partners in Brussels this week, but he has limited options in dealing with either issue. Earlier this month,...

US President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday the United States would be lifting sanctions on Turkey, hailing the success of a ceasefire along its border with Syria, which he says is now permanent. "Earlier this morning, the government of Turkey informed my administration that they...

More than 100 prisoners of Daesh (ISIS) have escaped in Syria in the chaos since Turkey's incursion, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday. "We would say the number is now over 100. We do not know where they are," James Jeffrey, the State Department pointman on Syria, told the House Foreign...

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday hailed a deal struck between Russia and Turkey to remove Kurdish fighters from the Syria-Turkey border, calling the agreement a "big success." Trump has been under fire for abruptly withdrawing US troops from northern Syria, paving the way for Turkey...

Action Group For Palestinians Of Syria (AGPS) has documented the death of 4,002 Palestinian refugees in Syria, including 478 women and girls, since 2011 as a result of war-related incidents. 1,987 refugees were pronounced dead in 2019 (until October 21), up from 1,953 in 2018. Yarmouk...

Washington welcomes Berlin’s proposal for a security zone in northern Syria, U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison said on Wednesday, saying it should be for European allies to take charge and that direct U.S. involvement was unlikely. Speaking ahead of Thursday’s NATO defense...

A column of Russian military police arrived in the city of Kobani in northern Syria, Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Wednesday, the TASS news agency reported. The Defence Ministry has said that the military police will help facilitate the withdrawal of Kurdish YPG forces and their...

Russia warned Syrian Kurdish YPG forces on Wednesday they face further armed conflict with Turkey if they fail to comply with a Russian-Turkish accord calling for their withdrawal from the entire length of Syria’s northeastern border with Turkey. Moscow’s warning came shortly before Russian...

 A Syrian Kurdish man set himself on fire Wednesday outside the headquarters of the United Nations refugee agency and was receiving treatment for his injuries, police told AFP. The 31-year-old German resident did not provide any explanation for his actions, Geneva police spokesman...

Pentagon chief Mark Esper arrived in Baghdad for talks Wednesday as Washington pulled out its remaining troops from northern Syria through Iraq. Esper was due to meet his Iraqi counterpart Najah al-Shammari to address concerns among some in the government that the troops might stay in Iraq....

The Kremlin said Wednesday that the United States had betrayed and abandoned the Syrian Kurds and advised the Kurds to withdraw from the Syrian border as per a deal between Moscow and Ankara or be mauled by the Turkish army. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the comments to Russian news...