President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia and Turkey had agreed steps to tackle militants in northwest Syria and "normalise" the situation there after a Syrian army offensive encircled rebel fighters and a Turkish military post. Putin was speaking after talks in Moscow with...

Lebanon has "forcibly deported" nearly 2,500 Syrian refugees back to their war-torn homeland since May, Amnesty International said Tuesday, calling on authorities to end the expulsions. Amnesty cited data from Lebanon's General Security agency and the Lebanese government showing that some...

Syrian rebels on Tuesday launched a wide-scale attack against a five-month Russia-backed Syrian army campaign aiming to take back the opposition's last major bastion, opposition officials, rebels and residents said. The push-back comes as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets Russian...

Clashes between anti-government fighters and regime forces killed 51 combattants on both sides in northwestern Syria Tuesday, a war monitor said. Russia-backed regime fighters have for weeks been chipping away at the edges of the jihadist-run stronghold of Idlib -- a province that borders...

The Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria said Tuesday their forces had started to withdraw from outposts along the Turkish border after a US-Turkish deal for a buffer zone there. They said work had begun Saturday on "the first practical steps -- in the Ras al-Ain area -- in removing some...

President Tayyip Erdogan will seek steps from Russia’s Vladimir Putin to safeguard Turkish troops in the face of an offensive by the Syrian army in the country’s northwest when the two leaders meet on Tuesday, a senior Turkish official said. Erdogan, who is making a one-day visit to Russia,...

Hussam Alhallak and his wife kept thinking that the war in Syria would end, or that at least conditions would improve. But it persisted, with gunfire in the streets and bombings that drove the couple and their two young children into their basement for protection. They just wanted to move...

(Eqtsad)- People of northern Idlib province who fled the regime’s offensive to the border city of Afrin have been facing restrictions imposed by the local authorities, displaced said. Mohamed Nadeem, one of the displaced, who recently arrived in Afrin, said the Trinda military...

 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that the Russian-backed Syrian regime offensive in Idlib did not violate any agreements with Turkey, the RIA news agency reported. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday that...

Turkish ground troops will enter a planned safe zone in northern Syria "very soon," President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, after a joint operation centre with the United States opened at the weekend. Turkey and the United States agreed earlier this month to set up the joint centre for the...

Airstrikes targeted Syria's last major rebel stronghold in the northwestern province of Idlib on Monday, killing at least nine people, including a woman and her child, opposition activists sad. The attacks come as regime forces turn their focus on another rebel-held town in Idlib,...

Syrian soldier Ahmad Amuri rolls up on a motorbike to hand water bottles to comrades standing guard under pistachio trees, just a few dozen metres from a Turkish observation point in northwest Syria. President Bashar al-Assad's troops seized the town of Morek from jihadists and allied...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A number of lawyers in northern Idlib province were surprised by a decision, insisting on blocking them from pleading, attending and litigation before the courts of the Salvation government's Justice ministry until further notice.  Many lawyers and judges said...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels thwarted a new incursion attempt by regime forces and allied militias into al-Kabana hilltop in coastal Latakia province, activists said Sunday.  The regime army backed by Russian airstrikes launched several attacks to take the strategic hill in the...

 Nine civilians were killed and 20 others injured by Syrian Regime and Russian amid overnight airstrikes in northwestern Idlib province, according to the White Helmets civil defense agency on Sunday. The White Helmets reported that three children were among the victims of the...

Russia-backed Syrian forces found Abu Abdo and family this week in Khan Sheikhoun, a town which almost all other residents had fled during shelling in an offensive to take the area from rebel fighters. “The last month was very bad. We couldn’t stand by the door because of the shelling ......

 A senior Revolutionary Guards commander denied on Sunday that Iranian targets had been hit in Israeli air strikes in Syria, the semi-official ILNA news agency reported. Israeli aircraft on Saturday struck Iranian forces near Damascus that had been planning to launch “killer...

The Israeli air force struck in Syria to prevent an Iranian force from launching an attack on the Jewish state with drones armed with explosives, the army said Sunday. While Israel operates regularly in Syria, it rarely acknowledges its actions so swiftly, with Prime Minister Benjamin...

 (Eqtsad)- More than two thirds of the Rukban camp's displaced have refused to go back to regime-held areas due to a survey made this week by a UN delegation and the Syrian Red Crescent, activists said. The UN delegation has counted 2749 families during the five-day mission in the...

A US-Turkey operations centre aimed at creating a safe zone in northern Syria is operating at "full capacity", Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said Saturday. Under an agreement reached between Ankara and Washington earlier this month after difficult negotiations, the joint operations...