Germany is halting sales of weapons to Turkey that could be used in its operation against Kurdish militias in northern Syria, its defense minister was quoted as saying Saturday. "In the context of the Turkish military offensive in northeastern Syria, the government will not issue any new...

Writhing in pain on a hospital stretcher, Fatima al-Issa bit on a purple handkerchief as a medical team tended to wounds she suffered in Turkish bombardment of northeast Syria. They rubbed ointment into burns around her swollen left eye after the 45-year-old was hit by shrapnel from Turkish...

Turkey's Defense Ministry on Saturday said that Ras al-Ayn neighborhood located east of Euphrates in Syria was taken under control in the scope of Operation Peace Spring. "As part of the successful operations being conducted in the framework of Operation Peace Spring, the town of Ras...

A civilian died in southeastern Turkey on Saturday from wounds caused by a cross-border mortar attack. Ismail Taskin breathed his last at the Suruc State Hospital in Sanliurfa province. Two other civilians were martyred in the same attack on Friday when YPG/PKK terrorists targeted a...

Kurdish doctor Farid Mustafa was one of the last to flee Ras al-Ain as Turkish bombs rained down on the Syrian border town. He fears may never return home. He escaped on Thursday night with his wife and two small children as warplanes flew in the sky above a line of cars trying to get away...

Turkish forces stepped up their bombardment around a town in northeast Syria on Saturday, the fourth day of an offensive against a Kurdish militia, after U.S. troops in the region came under artillery fire from Turkish positions. The United States has ramped up its efforts to persuade...

The death toll among Syrian Kurdish-led fighters battling a Turkish offensive has risen to 74, most of whom have been killed in the Tel Abyad area, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday. Observatory Director Rami Abdulrahman also said 49 fighters with Turkish backed...

Some 100,000 people have left their homes in northeastern Syria with a growing number sheltering in shelters and schools following this week's Turkish military incursion in the region, the United Nations said on Friday. "The humanitarian impact is already being felt. An estimated...

Five detained members of Daesh (ISIS) managed to escape from a Kurdish-run prison in northeastern Syria on Friday after Turkish shelling hit the area, an official said. "Five terrorists escaped from Navkur after shelling struck near the prison," said an official from the Syrian Democratic...

The death toll of civilians and fighters further increased on the third day of the Turkish offensive towards the Kurds in Syria. A car bomb went off in the city of Qamishli, and on the Turkish side of the border civilians were killed in a mortar attack, according to several media. A car...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian security services arrested at least 24 people, including 12 women, in the capital and Eastern Ghouta suburbs during the last week, local activists said. Activist Bara’a Mohamed told Zaman al-Wasl that 12 women from the capital and its suburbs were arrested...

Turkey's assault on Syrian Kurdish forces has not breached a red line declared by President Donald Trump, a US official said Thursday, as he added that Washington wanted to broker a ceasefire. Trump, in a week of mixed messages, initially voiced understanding for Turkey before...

Syria's deputy foreign minister Faisal Maqdad attacked U.S.-backed Kurdish-led SDF forces Thursday, saying they had betrayed their country and accusing them of a separatist agenda that gave Turkey a pretext to violate his country's sovereignty. Asked about whether Damascus should resume...

Turkey’s newly launched anti-terror operation in northern Syria liberated seven villages of Tal Abyad town and Ras al-Ayn city from terrorists on Thursday. The villages of al-Yabisah and Tal Fandar were the first ones cleared of terrorists as part of the Operation Peace Spring -- launched...

Turkish troops and allied Syrian rebels have now encircled two border towns in northeast Syria held by the U.S.-backed SDF forces after a ground offensive that seized several villages around them, a spokesman for the rebels said Thursday. Major Youssef Hamoud said the two towns of Ras al...

Turkish forces have killed more than 100 militants in an assault on Kurdish militia in northeast Syria, Turkey’s president said on Thursday, as heavy shelling and air strikes against targets in the region continued. According to a senior Turkish security official, armed forces struck...

Turkish ground forces seized at least one village from Kurdish fighters in northern Syria as they pressed ahead with their assault for a second day Thursday, pounding towns and villages along with border with airstrikes and artillery. Residents of border areas within Syria scrambled in...

Israel Thursday slammed Turkey's "invasion" of Kurdish-controlled areas of Syria and warned against "ethnic cleansing" of the Kurdish people, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement. "Israel strongly condemns the Turkish invasion of the Kurdish areas in Syria and warns against...

Much like in the U.S., the public in Russia is also growing weary of ongoing conflicts and the prolonged involvement of their armed forces abroad. Russia launched its operations in Syria on Sept. 30, 2015. According to a recent survey conducted by Levada Centre, a Russian polling NGO,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Participants in the Refugees' Rights Defenders initiative called for stopping the procedures of forcible deportation of refugees to Syria due to its violation of Article 3 of the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which...