Turkey dispatched its military chief to Moscow Thursday, seeking approval for an air campaign in Syria's Kurdish-controlled Afrin region, although Damascus warned it could shoot down any Turkish planes in its skies. Turkey's foreign minister said the Moscow trip by Chief of Staff Hulusi...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Head of the local council in Harasta district in besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs has accused regime troops of looting the Christian cemeteries. Hossam al-Bayrouti told Zaman al-Wasl that cemeteries in the al-Ajami and the al-Intaj areas had been looted and damged....

The Syrian Foreign Ministry said Thursday that a U.S military presence in Syria was illegitimate and represented an "aggression" against Syrian sovereignty, after Washington signaled that its forces would stay in parts of Syria indefinitely. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on...

Turkey said Thursday Washington's denial that it intended to build a border force in Syria was "important," but added Ankara would not remain silent in the face of any force that threatened its borders. Turkey reacted angrily after the U.S.-led coalition said it would help its Syrian...