Syrian Kurdish forces say Turkey is failing to abide by terms of a U.S.-brokered cease-fire, refusing to lift a siege it imposed on a key border town in northeastern Syria 30 hours after the truce went into effect. The Syrian Democratic Forces called Saturday on U.S. Vice President Mike...

Prime Pinister Saad Hariri gave his political adversaries in Lebanon's national unity government a 72-hour ultimatum to agree on "convincing" reforms amid escalating nationwide protests over the country's worsening economic crisis. "I'm setting a very short deadline. Either our partners in...

Turkey's president on Friday warned that Ankara would restart its Syria offensive by next Tuesday if Kurdish forces do not withdraw from a "safe zone" as EU leaders slammed the terms of a ceasefire deal negotiated by Washington. Following talks with US Vice-President Mike Pence on...

In a dusty camp in northeastern Syria, Umm Osama says she hopes a deadly Turkish offensive against her Kurdish jailers will allow Islamic State group supporters like her to escape. "If the Turkish army attacks the camp, we will leave," said the 25-year-old Syrian woman inside the camp...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian officials discussed with Bashar Assad in Damascus the need to de-escalate the situation in , northeast Syria, Russia’s foreign ministry said on Saturday, such a statement accompanied with heavy bombardment on northern Idlib province. Rescuing Civil...

Turkey will continue its offensive into northeast Syria more rapidly than before if an agreement with the United States to pause the operation and allow the withdrawal of Kurdish forces is not fully implemented, President Tayyip Erdogan said Friday. Erdogan also told journalists that it was...

Two Syrian workers died when they were trapped in a shop that was set on fire by rioters during a large protest against new taxes in Downtown Beirut Friday, The Daily Star reported Friday. Lebanese security forces fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters in Beirut early Friday...

Sporadic clashes between Turkish forces and Kurdish groups were ongoing in a battleground Syrian border town on Friday, a monitor said, despite Ankara's announcement of a five-day truce. "There are sporadic artillery strikes and you can hear shooting in the town of Ras al-Ain," said...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif, have discussed situation in north eastern Syria and expressed their readiness to facilitate relevant talks, Russian foreign ministry said on Thursday. Both Lavrov and Zarif said it was necessary to...

Turkey has agreed to a five-day suspention of its military operation in northeast Syria to allow for withdrawal of Kurdish forces, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Thursday after talks with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. "Today the United States and Turkey have agreed to a...

 A key Republican ally of Donald Trump was to introduce tough sanctions against Turkey in the U.S. Senate Thursday, joining Democratic lawmakers in a sign of the bipartisan fury sparked by the president's abrupt decision to pull American troops out of Syria. The Turkey Sanctions Bill...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Since the beginning of the Syrian revolution in March 2011, Bashar al-Assad’s regime has worked on suppressing it by all means of killing and destruction.  Assad's destructive campaigns, as well as the Americans and the Russians, including dozens of bridges...

Bashar al-Assad said Thursday his forces will counter Turkey's 'invasion' by "all legitimate means", in his first remarks since deploying troops near the border to support Ankara's Kurdish rivals. We "will respond to it and confront it, in all its forms, anywhere in Syria, using all...

Daesh (ISIS) said Thursday it had "freed" women held by Syria's Kurds, the latest in a series of reported breakouts since Turkey launched a cross-border offensive last week. In a statement released on the Telegram messaging application, Daesh said it had stormed a security headquarters west...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence met on Thursday to discuss Ankara's military offensive in northeast Syria, Turkey's presidency said. Pence is expected to urge Turkey to halt its offensive against Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria, a day after U.S....

Turkey's week-old offensive against Kurdish-controlled areas of northeastern Syria has displaced more than 300,000 people, a war monitor said Thursday. "More than 300,000 civilians have been displaced since the start of the offensive," Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for...

Oscar-nominated Syrian director Feras Fayyad has risked his life to chronicle the atrocities of the Assad regime, and suffered torture in prison because of his films. Despite having his nails pulled out and electric shocks administered to intimate parts of his body, Fayyad continues to...

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet his Russian counterpart in Russia on Oct. 22, according to a statement by Presidential Communications Directorate on Wednesday. Erdogan and Vladimir Putin will meet in Sochi, a Russian coastal city, as part of Erdogan’s one-day visit to...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended his decision to pull US troops out of Syria, calling it “strategically brilliant,” and denied giving Turkey a “green light” to launch operations against Kurdish militants. “President (Recep Tayyip) Erdogan’s decision didn’t surprise me...

A senior US administration official insisted Wednesday that President Donald Trump's pullout from Syria will not change his hard line on Iran, a key ally of President Bashar al-Assad. In a Senate hearing, Trump's Democratic rivals said he had strengthened adversaries by pulling US troops...