(Sky News)- Syria's Bashar al Assad has rejected pleas from rebel fighters in Aleppo for a truce. The president said victory in the battle-ravaged city would be a "huge step" towards ending the country's five-year civil war. He was speaking after a fierce three-week offensive in which...

Saudi Arabia is striving to develop a homegrown defense industry but cutting reliance on foreign equipment will take years, the head of a major military development firm said Thursday. The kingdom is the world's third-biggest defense spender, but only two percent of that outlay is local....

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman Thursday said the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia was working together with the forces of Bashar Assad in the north of Aleppo province. At a news conference in Ankara, Ibrahim Kalin also said Turkey has conducted the "most intense" talks to help end...

Over 1.3 million Syrian refugees in the country are under the age of 18, the Interior Ministry has revealed Thursday. According to the figures collected by the Directorate General of Migration Management, 1,322,187 Syrian children currently live in Turkey. Turkey hosts the largest number...