Turkey will launch its own operation to establish a "safe zone" in Syria if talks with the United States fail to give Turkish troops control of the area within a few weeks, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday. Washington and Ankara have been at odds over plans for the region in...

Air strikes on Syria's northwestern Idlib region stopped on Saturday after a Russian-backed ceasefire went into effect following four months of deadly bombardment, a war monitor said. "There are no warplanes in the sky and air strikes have stopped" said Rami Abdul Rahman, the head of...

Companies from the United Arab Emirates are taking part in the Damascus International Trade Fair, state media has said, months after their embassy reopened in the Syrian capital. On Wednesday, a delegation of around 40 businessmen from the UAE arrived in Damascus "to take part in the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Four policemen were killed Thursday when an armed group opened fire on their vehicle in southern Daraa province, state-run media reported.  No rebel group claimed responsibility for the attack that took place near the town of Muzayrib. More than...

The United Nations Security Council is considering a draft resolution that would call for a truce in northwestern Syria “to avoid a further deterioration of the already catastrophic humanitarian situation,” though diplomats said on Thursday that such a move is likely to face opposition from...

The U.N. special envoy for Syria says he's "quietly hopeful" the U.N. can announce an agreement to launch a constitutional committee before world leaders gather in late September, a step which could lead to a political solution to end the eight-year conflict. Geir Pedersen told the Security...

Russian-backed regime forces seized several towns and villages in northwest Syria Thursday, as deadly air strikes hit the jihadist-held bastion, a monitor said. Seven civilians died in air strikes in the south of the bastion, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, a day after regime...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed Turkey would not allow the US to delay the establishment of a 'safe zone' in northern Syria, in comments published on Thursday. Ankara and Washington earlier this month agreed after difficult talks to set up a buffer zone between the Turkish border and...

 Fierce fighting broke out between the powerful YPG militia and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) on Wednesday when the Kurdish militants tried to move into al-Bab town near the Turkish border, Anadolu Agency reported. The fighting occurred in the evening as the 'Kurdish People's...

At least 13 civilians, including a mother with her four children, were killed in Idlib, a de-escalation zone in northwest Syria, when the regime and Russian airstrikes hit the region, according to local sources on Wednesday. Assad regime’s airstrikes at Maarret al-Numan town killed...

Air raids hit near a Turkish military post in northwest Syria Wednesday, a war monitor said, after Ankara vowed to take necessary steps to protect its troops deployed across the border. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said warplanes fired at areas surrounding a Turkish...

Fresh Syrian regime airstrikes killed six civilians on Tuesday in Idlib de-escalation zone in northwestern Syria, according to opposition sources. According to the information by aircraft observatory of the Syrian opposition, Bashar al-Assad regime warplanes hit Kafranbil district,...

President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia and Turkey had agreed steps to tackle militants in northwest Syria and "normalise" the situation there after a Syrian army offensive encircled rebel fighters and a Turkish military post. Putin was speaking after talks in Moscow with...

Syrian rebels on Tuesday launched a wide-scale attack against a five-month Russia-backed Syrian army campaign aiming to take back the opposition's last major bastion, opposition officials, rebels and residents said. The push-back comes as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets Russian...

Clashes between anti-government fighters and regime forces killed 51 combattants on both sides in northwestern Syria Tuesday, a war monitor said. Russia-backed regime fighters have for weeks been chipping away at the edges of the jihadist-run stronghold of Idlib -- a province that borders...

The Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria said Tuesday their forces had started to withdraw from outposts along the Turkish border after a US-Turkish deal for a buffer zone there. They said work had begun Saturday on "the first practical steps -- in the Ras al-Ain area -- in removing some...

President Tayyip Erdogan will seek steps from Russia’s Vladimir Putin to safeguard Turkish troops in the face of an offensive by the Syrian army in the country’s northwest when the two leaders meet on Tuesday, a senior Turkish official said. Erdogan, who is making a one-day visit to Russia,...

(Eqtsad)- People of northern Idlib province who fled the regime’s offensive to the border city of Afrin have been facing restrictions imposed by the local authorities, displaced said. Mohamed Nadeem, one of the displaced, who recently arrived in Afrin, said the Trinda military...

 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that the Russian-backed Syrian regime offensive in Idlib did not violate any agreements with Turkey, the RIA news agency reported. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday that...

Turkish ground troops will enter a planned safe zone in northern Syria "very soon," President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, after a joint operation centre with the United States opened at the weekend. Turkey and the United States agreed earlier this month to set up the joint centre for the...