After years of working towards autonomy, Syria's Kurds have been dropped by their US ally and forced to call in the Damascus regime to stem a six-day Turkish offensive. But as President Bashar al-Assad's forces deploy towards the northern border, is the Kurdish minority giving up on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A mother and her boy child have lost their lives in Russian airstrikes hit the Mount Zawiya in northern Idlib province, local activists said Monday. The cluster-bomb attack hit the village of al-Bara south of Idlib city.   Last Wednesday, two civilians were...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signaled Monday that Turkey aims to drive Kurdish-led fighters from the northern Syrian town of Manbij, after Syrian Kurdish officials struck a deal with the Syrian government to confront Ankara’s offensive. Earlier Monday, Syrian government...

Saudi Arabian forces have taken over control of Yemen's southern port of Aden as part of efforts to end a power struggle between the Yemeni government and southern separatists, four sources familiar with the matter said. Last week the United Arab Emirates, Riyadh's main partner in an...