The Turkish Red Crescent offered this Ramadan’s first fast-breaking meal, or iftar, in opposition held Idlib in northern Syria on Monday. The humanitarian group will serve meal to more than 7,000 civilians in Idlib on daily basis and it will also deliver iftar to civilians at 15 orphanages...

The Russian defense ministry said Syrian militants rocketed Russia’s Hmeimim airbase near Syria’s coastal city of Latakia twice on Monday. There were no casualties and no damage at the military base, and air defense forces repelled the attack, the ministry said on its website.

Clashes between Syrian regime forces and jihadists Monday killed more than 26 fighters in the country's northwest, which has seen an escalation in shelling and air strikes, a monitor said. Eleven pro-government fighters were among those killed in fierce fighting in the northern countryside...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 9 Kurdish fighters killed by explosive devices in the northeastern province of Hasaka, Islamic State’s news agency said Monday. The first explosive device went off in vehicle carrying five Asayish forces near the town of al-Hol, east of Hasaka city, Amaq...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ammar al-Sheikh Haidar, former detainee and political dissident, has decided to go on a silent hunger strike and to sit in front of the Canadian consulate in Istanbul on Monday to protest against the freezing of his settlement file.  “I am no more than a burden on...

Syrian rebels backed by Turkey said on Monday that Moscow and its Syrian government ally were trying to wrest control of two major highways in their last enclave in the northwest of the country in a bid to shore up Syria’s sanction-hit economy. The sixth day of the campaign by...

Russian air strikes on an underground hospital in the jihadist-held Syrian province of Idlib on Sunday forced the closure of the facility, a medical organisation and war monitor said. The hospital on the outskirts of Hass, in the south of Idlib province, was hit by air strikes, in an attack...

Syrian regime forces and their Russian allies pounded the rebel-held northwest of Syria with air strikes on Saturday, sources in the area said, as artillery hit a Turkish military position there, underlining the risk of wider escalation. The upsurge in violence in Idlib and nearby areas in...

Turkish and Russian officials are reviewing deployment of their forces in the Syrian border region of Tal Rifaat, Turkey's Vice President Fuat Oktay said Sunday, a day after cross-border fire from the area killed one Turkish soldier. Four Turkish soldiers were killed and two wounded in two...

In April 2007, a short, bald and burly man walked into the West Wing of the White House. He carried a small briefcase with a few folders chaotically jutting out. Inside, three men were waiting: National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, Hadley’s deputy, Elliott Abrams, and a surprise guest,...

The sudden re-emergence of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-appointed caliph of the Islamic State, did not alarm his former friend and present rival Abu Mohammad al-Julani. Stripped of all territory once under his control, with an army that crumbled throughout the deserts of Syria and Iraq,...

“At least 12 children have been killed in northwestern Syria since April 20 as violence in the demilitarized zone continues to escalate. “More than 30,000 people have been forced to leave their homes to flee the violence during the month of April. “Four health facilities are now...

 Syrian regime forces and their Russian allies pounded the rebel-held northwest with fresh air strikes Saturday, the fifth day of a widening campaign that has killed dozens of people and forced thousands to flee, sources in the area and a war monitor said. The upsurge in violence in...

 Turkey-backed Syrian rebels launched an offensive into territory held by the Kurdish YPG militia north of the Syrian city of Aleppo on Saturday, seizing some territory before heavy shelling forced them to retreat. The operation marked an escalation on one of the most complicated...

The Syrian government has accused Kurdish leaders of "treason" for organising a conference with allied Arab tribes to plot out the political future of territory under their alliance's control. The Kurds and their Arab allies control a vast swathe of the north and northeast that makes up...

A Kurdish-led Syrian force said Friday it believes in dialogue with the government but warned a settlement on the future of territory it controls cannot arrive through a Damascus-prescribed "reconciliation" agreement. "We are ready for dialogue with the Syrian regime, with the central...

Eleven members of Turkey's leading medical association were sentenced to prison terms on Friday over criticisms of a military offensive against Kurdish militants in Syria last year. They were given 20 months in prison for "inciting hatred and hostility," one of those convicted, Seyhmus...

The UN's special envoy for Syria met Friday in Geneva with top diplomats from a "small group" of countries.  Representatives from Egypt, France, Germany, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the U.K. and the U.S. attended the meeting with Geir O. Pedersen, aiming to revive the Geneva process, which...

The European Union on Friday called for protecting inhabitants of Syria’s northwestern Idlib province and ensuring humanitarian access to the province.  "With the marked increase of airstrikes over Idlib province and northern Hama over the past weeks and days, we are once again running...

Syrian rebel fighters repelled an attack by government forces following brief clashes Friday at the southern edge of the last rebel-held enclave in Syria, activists and the insurgents said. It was the first attempted ground operation to violate a shaky seven-month truce. The clashes came...