Clashes between Kurdish fighters and Turkey-backed opposition gunmen in northern Syria left at least 11 fighters dead in some of the most intense fighting in weeks between the two sides, an opposition war monitor and a Kurdish spokesman said Tuesday. Exchange of fire and shelling between...

A car bomb on Tuesday killed five people, mostly local police, on the outskirts of the Turkish-controlled town of Al-Bab in northern Syria, a war monitor said. The explosion, which targeted a police station, killed a police chief from another district, two officers and two civilians, the...

Among the olive trees in northwestern Syria, displaced teenager Wissam Diab plucks an oud outside his new home, a tent surrounded by luscious plants. Inside, there are more tumbling indoor plants and a collection of tiny cacti, as well as dozens of books lined up on a cloth-covered table...

During the trial of Anwar Raslan before the Higher Regional Court in Koblenz, Germany weeks ago,  the former intelligence officer had posited some far-fetched claims denying that he participated in torturing the prisoners and that any torture had occurred in the branch at all, saying that...