Russia has informed Turkey that Syrian Kurdish YPG fighters have withdrawn from a strip of land near the Syrian-Turkish border within a deadline set by Ankara and Moscow, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday. Under an accord clinched by Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin a...

Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's "caliphate" in Baghouz, Syria. Today, they're crammed together: 5,000 presumed jihadists in an overcrowded Kurdish prison in the country's northeast. AFP...

Syrian regime forces and the Turkish military clashed on Tuesday for the first time since Ankara launched an offensive in northeastern Syria three weeks ago, a war monitor said. "Heavy fighting erupted for the first time between the Syrian and Turkish armies," the Syrian Observatory...

Pivoting from the dramatic killing of the Islamic State group's leader, the Pentagon is increasing U.S. efforts to protect Syria's oil fields from the extremist group as well as from Syria itself and the country's Russian allies. It's a new high-stakes mission even as American troops are...