International medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres on Thursday urged Turkey to open its border to some 100,000 displaced Syrians trapped by fighting including a recent Islamic State advance. Fighting near the Turkish border in northern Aleppo province intensified last week when IS launched...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday a U.S.-backed offensive against Islamic State in northern Syria was largely being carried out by Arab rather than Kurdish fighters, in a sign of tacit approval for the operation near Turkey's borders. The Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance,...

 Three Syrian men with suspected links to Islamic State have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning a large-scale attack in the western city of Duesseldorf, the federal prosecutor said on Thursday. The plot was uncovered because a fourth Syrian man, identified as Saleh A.,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Unknown assailants on Thursday shot dead 6 Ahrar al-Sham fighters in an attack on their checkpoint near the regime-held town of Kafriya in Idlib province, source told Zaman al-Wasl.  The assailants used silenced pistols in the attack , according to the source. The...