Syrian regime forces and their allies retook early Monday a key northwestern town days after losing it to rebel forces, pro-government media and an opposition war monitor said. The town's recapture comes after escalating and direct clashes between Syrian and Turkish forces that could signal...

Damascus and parallel Libyan authorities opposed to the U.N.-recognised government in Tripoli agreed Sunday to exchange diplomatic missions and confront Turkish "interference", state media said. A delegation representing eastern Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar met Syrian Foreign Minister...

  The Iranian media outlets said on Sunday that 21 Shiite fighters have been killed in Turkish drone strikes last Friday.  The death toll included 18 fighters with the Pakistani Zainabiyoun Brigade and three with the Afghan Fatemiyoun Brigade, key pro-Iran...

Turkish military targeted and rendered unusable Syria's Nayrab military airport in the northern province of Aleppo, Turkey's state-owned Anadolu agency said Sunday. Turkey has sharply escalated its attacks on Syrian government forces since Thursday, when dozens of Turkish soldiers were...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- As Syrian regime forces suffer heavy losses in northwestern Syria, a new battlefront has already come to surface in southern Darra province  when Syrian opposition fighters on Sunday have stormed regime bastions and took troops captive. The western...

Syria’s official news agency said two of its warplane were shot down by Turkish forces inside northwest Syria, amid a military escalation there that's led to growing direct clashes between Turkish and Syrian regime forces. SANA says the jets were targeted over the Idlib region, and that the...

Over the last several days Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has pulled out all the stops to try to deal with rapidly worsening situation in Syria. He has mounted a campaign to exert maximum pressure on his two purported allies, the adversaries Russia and the United States, and through the...

Syrian state media denied a report on Sunday that a government plane had been shot down and said instead that its army had downed a Turkish drone in the Idlib region of northwest Syria. Turkey's state-owned Anadolu Agency said a Syrian plane was shot down in the northwest, where the Syrian...

Syria’s army has declared the airspace over northwest Syria closed to planes and drones, pledging to down any aircraft that violates it, state media said on Sunday. “Any aircraft that violates our airspace will be dealt with as enemy aircraft that must be brought down,” state news agency...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish strikes using drones and smart missiles have killed at least 70 regime troops and hit two military airports, 22 outposts and army convoy in northwest Syria, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Saturday. The Turkish drones have destroyed a military convoy near the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish-backed Syrian forces pressed new gains in northwestern Syria on Saturday, taking two towns and four villages from regime forces south of Idlib and west of Hama province, rebel sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Backed by Turkish artillery and equipped by new...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told his Turkish counterpart on Saturday that innocent people should be protected in Syria’s northwest province, as tensions rose between Moscow and Ankara over the fighting there. “Idlib’s situation is very complicated, considering the presence of dangerous...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that he had asked President Vladimir Putin for Russia to step aside in Syria and leave Turkey to deal with Syrian government forces alone, after 34 Turkish soldiers were killed this week. Government forces, backed by Russian air power, have...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that his country's borders with Europe were open, as thousands of refugees gathered at the frontier with Greece. Migrants played a cat-and-mouse game with Greek border patrols throughout the night and into Saturday, with some cutting...

Russia and Turkey have agreed to reduce tensions on the ground in Idlib province while continuing military action there, the Russian foreign ministry said on Saturday following several days of talks in Ankara. “Concrete steps to achieve lasting stability in the Idlib de-escalation zone...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 120 regime troops and Shiite militants were killed Friday in Turkish army shelling on military positions in northern Syria, rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl.   The heavy Turkish bombardments came after 33 Turkish soldiers were killed late on Thursday...

  U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday described an escalation in fighting in northwest Syria that killed dozens of Turkish troops as "one of the most alarming moments" of the nine-year-old war and called for an immediate ceasefire. The U.N. Security Council is due to...

The U.N. Security Council will hold an emergency meeting Friday to discuss the escalation of fighting in Syria, diplomats said. The meeting is expected to begin at 2100 GMT, the acting chairman of the council, Belgian ambassador Marc Pecsteen de Buytswerve, told reporters. He said the...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will speak with leaders of the United States, France, Germany and Britain, following an air strike that killed 33 Turkish soldiers in Syria’s Idlib region, a Turkish official was quoted as saying on Friday. Turkey’s Communications Director Fahrettin...

Refugees in Turkey headed towards European frontiers on Friday after an official declared that borders had been thrown open in response to the escalating war in Syria, a day after 33 Turkish soldiers were killed by Russian-backed Syrian government troops. European officials rushed to...