Regime forces massed Saturday in northwest Syria in a bid to push further north after overrunning a key town and surrounding a Turkish army outpost, a monitor said. Backed by Russia, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces have chipped away at the south of the jihadist-run...

Syrian regime troops Friday reclaimed a cluster of towns they had lost early in the eight-year-old war, pressing their offensive in the northwest, the country's last big rebel stronghold. The army drove out the last rebel fighters from the Hama countryside – the latest in a string of...

Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have gone home to parts of Syria cleared of terrorist groups by cross-border Turkish military operations, said the nation's foreign minister on Friday.  “More than 346,000 Syrians have returned to areas of Syria which were cleared of terrorists in...

Syrian regime forces surrounded a Turkish military observation post in the northwest on Friday after overrunning nearby areas, upping the stakes with Ankara in its Russian-backed offensive against the jihadist-ruled Idlib region. The move angered Turkey, with Foreign Minister Mevlut...