A US-backed, Kurdish-led force in Syria is seeking to evacuate Kurds in parts of Aleppo to safe areas, its chief said Monday, after pro-Turkey armed opposition factions seized a town where tens of thousands of Kurds were living. “We are actively coordinating with all relevant...

Iranian-backed militias entered Syria overnight from Iraq and were heading to northern Syria to beef up beleaguered Syrian army forces battling insurgents, according to two Syrian army sources. Dozens of Iran-aligned Iraqi Hashd al-Shaabi fighters from Iraq also crossed into Syria through a...

Syrian opposition forces backed by Turkey have launched an offensive targeting Tal Rifaat, the last Kurdish-controlled enclave in Syria’s northern Aleppo province, and have entered the city center, as Islamist militants of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and allied factions expand their control...

A flare-up of fighting in Syria that has seen the government lose control of Aleppo poses a grave threat to regional and international security, the UN envoy for Syria said Sunday. “I call for urgent and serious political engagement -- among Syrian and international stakeholders -- to...