Bashar al-Assad said the Syrian presidential election in 2021 would be open to anybody who wants to run and that there would be numerous challengers for the presidency. Assad, who made the comment in an interview broadcast Monday on Russian state-funded television channel RT, faced two...

Turkey has started the repatriation of captured Daesh militants, state broadcaster TRT Haber said Monday, after the Turkish interior minister warned last week that Ankara would do so even if the prisoners had their citizenships revoked. It was not immediately clear how many jihadists would...

The Turkish president on Sunday said 365,000 refugees have returned to their homeland in northern Syria. The Syrian refugees returned to the regions that Turkey has made safe through its anti-terror operations, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, speaking at Bestepe National Congress and Culture...

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says about 500 or 600 U.S. troops will remain in Syria to counter Islamic State fighters. President Donald Trump recently approved an expanded military mission to secure oil fields across eastern Syria. His decision locked hundreds of U.S. troops...