Civilians must be spared in any Turkish military operation in northeast Syria, where the United Nations hopes that mass displacement and Srebrenica-like killings can be prevented, a senior U.N. aid official said on Monday. The United States began pulling troops from northeast Syria in a...

As US forces pull back from parts of northern Syria and make way for a threatened Turkish military offensive, here is a recap of Washington's involvement in the Syrian conflict. - Pressure on Assad - On April 29, 2011, a month after the first protests in Syria that were met with brutal...

 Turkey is determined to clear its border with Syria of militants and assure the security of the country, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Monday, after the White House said Ankara will soon launch an offensive into northern Syria. On Sunday, the White House press secretary...

Donald Trump on Sunday gave his blessing to a Turkish operation targeting Kurdish militants in northern Syria, saying the United States will stand aside as Ankara launches its "long-planned" operation. The move marks a major shift in US policy, and effectively abandons an American ally in...

Denmark allocated 50 million Danish kroner ($7.3 million) to mine clearance in northeastern Syria, Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod said on Sunday.  "If we want to win the peace in Syria, prevent ISIL [Daesh] from coming back and create a basis for Syrian refugees to return, then we must...

The Free Syrian Army (FSA), which took part in operations Euphrates Shield and Olive Branch along with the Turkish Armed Forces, has completed preparations for a potential military operation in east of Euphrates. Anadolu Agency footage showed on Sunday the military exercises and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 14 troops from the coastal Latakia province killed by rebels in September, pro-regime activists said. The death toll included 6 officers. Rebels and jihadists have killed more than 130,000 pro-regime forces since the armed conflict erupted eight years...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Activists reported a state of panic among the residents of the Kurdish-held territory near the Turkish border over an imminent Turkish military operation into northeastern Syria. Hasaka-based activist Abdul-Malek al-Ali said tens of people have fled the town of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The head of the Free Aleppo Council said that the Syrian people’s problem is not constitutions, but with the head of the regime and his gang, seeking to move to a democratic civil government system. Britta Haji Hassan told Zaman al-Wasl that the so-called constitutional...

Turkey's president threatened Saturday to launch a military operation into northeastern Syria, where U.S. troops are deployed and have been trying to defuse tension between Washington's two allies — Ankara and the Syrian Kurds. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's threats were a warning that a...

At least 16 civilians were injured in terrorist attacks by bomb-laden motorcycles in northern Syria on Saturday, according to local sources. A motorbike exploded in the opposition-held town of Qabasin, the northern Al-Bab city, injuring 12 people, the sources said. Four other people...

Nine jihadists were killed Saturday in Russian airstrikes on Syria's war-torn province of Idlib, a monitoring group said. "Russian strikes this morning targeted the Hurras al-Deen group and Ansar al-Tahwid in eastern Idlib... killing nine jihadists," said the Britain-based Syrian...

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said on Saturday it would "not hesitate to turn any unprovoked (Turkish) attack into an all-out war" to defend its region in northeast Syria. President Tayyep Erdogan said that Turkey will carry out an air and ground military operation, as soon as...

Turkey-backed Syrian rebels pledged on Friday to back a potential cross-border offensive that Ankara has threatened to mount against Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria. Ankara and Washington have agreed to set up a zone in northeast Syria along the border with Turkey, which wants to...

Turkey’s Gaziantep University will open three faculties in small northern Syria towns, Ankara’s Official Gazette said on Friday, reflecting a growing Turkish presence in the region. An Islamic sciences faculty will be opened in Syria’s Azaz, an education faculty in Afrin, and a faculty...

After more than eight years of war and bloodshed in Syria, the Iranian presence in the nation is at an all-time high, warned the top Syrian opposition figure. “Iranian influence is getting bigger and bigger. They are the ones controlling the State of Syria, the Army of Syria, the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanon’s military judicial investigation authorities on Thursday have referred 19 Syrians, including former jihadists, to the country’s military court. In the first indictment, examining military magistrate Fadi Sawan accused four Syrians of belonging to the...

Turkey does not think its effort with the United States to form a "safe zone" in northeast Syria will yield the results it wants and is ready to carry out a military operation, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was quoted as saying on Thursday. Ankara and NATO ally Washington have agreed to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Testimonies from people who entered the capital’s western town of Darayya have assured that the regime did not only destroy the neighborhoods with its bombs, but also it entered residential houses, shops and facilities—public and private—stealing all that could benefit it. The...

A UN official said on Wednesday Turkey's security concerns for northeast Syria are "legitimate" and these concerns need to be taken into account.  The constitutional committee in Syria will bridge the differences between the sides in Syrian crisis, Geir Pedersen, UN's special envoy to...