Turkey is preparing for possible further military action against a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia in northern Syria if talks on the issue with the United States and Russia fail, two Turkish officials said. President Tayyip Erdogan said this week Ankara was determined to eliminate threats...

Speaking in the name of truth is a known virtue, but how far would you go to give your truth a platform? What cost of speaking your mind would be too expensive? For exiled Turkey-based Syrian political rapper, Amir Al-Muarri, no price is too high, as his craft and ambitions characterise...

Polish police said Thursday they have found the body of a Syrian migrant near the border with Belarus, the latest fatality among people trying to illegally cross the European Union’s eastern border through dense forest and swamps. Bialystok police spokesman Tomasz Krupa said a police...

 Syria's defense ministry said on Thursday that one of its soldiers has been killed and three injured in an overnight Israeli airstrike on a telecommunication tower in the central province of Homs. A military official said the strike shortly before midnight in the Palmyra region hit the...

Syrian air defenses responded Wednesday to an Israeli airstrike targeting areas close to the historic Syrian town of Palmyra in the central province of Homs, state television reported. The reported quoted an unidentified military official as saying the strike occurred shortly before midnight...

 The United States does not support efforts to normalize relations with the regime of Bashar Assad or lift sanctions imposed on Damascus until there is progress in the political process in the war-torn country, the U.S. secretary of state said Wednesday. Antony Blinken's comments come...

 Turkey's foreign minister Wednesday accused Russia and the United States of failing to keep to their promise to restrain Syrian Kurdish militia from attacking Turkey. He said Ankara is forced to act to eliminate the threat as a result. Mevlut Cavusoglu’s comments come days after...

German authorities said Wednesday that the number of migrants arriving in the country via Poland and Belarus has gone up in recent months. German federal police said more than 4,300 people illegally crossed the border from Poland this year, with most of the migrants coming from Iraq, Syria,...

 Israel will keep the Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria in a 1967 war, even if international views on Damascus change, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Monday. In 2019, then U.S. President Donald Trump broke with other world powers by recognising Israel as...

Refugees endure devastating experience, as they fleeing their homes and bid farewell to their loved ones, in a heartbreaking experience that is further exacerbated by the complexities of war and crisis. To carry out its responsibilities toward Syrian refugees, the State of Qatar through Qatar...

At least four people were killed when a car bomb exploded in the Syrian city of Afrin on Monday, a medical source said, the latest such attack in the northwestern region that is controlled by Turkey and Syrian rebels it supports. The blast wounded another six people, the source said....

For a man who has spent the last decade battling armed rebels, being shunned in international forums and watching a brutal civil war dismantle his economy, the past few weeks have been good to President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. Senior officials from Lebanon appealed for his help with...

A Turkish special operations police officer was killed and three others were injured in a terrorist attack in northern Syria, Turkey's Interior Ministry said on Sunday. The casualties occurred when the Kurdish YPG militia attacked an armored vehicle with a guided missile in the Operation...

Dozens of migrants were rescued in the Mediterranean sea on Sunday by an Italian NGO ship. 59 people, including 17 minors and one pregnant woman, were aided by the vessel run by the RESQ charity. The migrants were sailing on a wooden boat in distress in international waters, after having...

Several Arab countries have signaled they might be easing the isolation of Syria's Bashar Assad regime as a political solution to end the country's decadelong conflict seems out of sight. While Assad is still shunned by the West and Turkey, who blame him for a decade of brutal war in...

From a ridge known locally as Baghouz Mountain, the most contested corner of the Middle East resembles an oasis: it’s a splash of green on a desert horizon stretching from the banks of the Euphrates to a sprawling area of new homes housing new – and unruly – neighbours. Little moves in the...

Syrian air defenses responded on Friday night to an Israeli strike targeting a military airbase in the country's central province of Homs, Syrian state media said. The airstrike wounded six soldiers, the report said. The report quoted an unnamed military official as saying the airstrike took...

The uncle of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has returned home from 36 years of exile to dodge arrest in France, the pro-government al-Watan newspaper reported Friday. Rifaat al-Assad, 84, arrived in Damascus on Thursday, al-Watan said on its Facebook page, nearly a month after a Paris...

 "It was the worst experience of our lives, especially after ten years of crisis in Syria," said Najwa* about her recent life-threatening ordeal, which exemplified how maternal and child health can suffer catastrophically during conflicts. Najwa's story started in early August when she...

A leading Syrian Kurdish politician said on Thursday the United States will stay on in Syria to destroy Islamic State, build infrastructure and remain a player in the search for a political settlement after more than 10 years of civil war. The Kurds, who live in the mountainous region...