Syrian rebels, who this week seized a strategic town from Islamic State, aim to move westward in the next phase of their Turkey-backed operation, an advance that could take weeks or months to complete, a rebel commander said. Colonel Ahmad Osman, head of the Sultan Murad group, also told...

 Turkish troops fired on U.S.-backed Kurdish militia fighters in northern Syria on Thursday, highlighting the complications of an incursion meant to secure the border region against both Islamic State and Kurdish advances. Syrian rebels backed by Turkish special forces, tanks and...

Hundreds of rebel fighters and thousands of civilians are to evacuate the besieged Damascus suburb of Daraya after rebels and the Syrian army agreed to a deal, a rebel leader and a state news agency have said. Thursday's development ended one of the longest standoffs in the Syria's five-year...

Turkish stocks opened higher on Thursday as global markets wait for clues from the U.S. Federal Reserve’s annual Jackson Hole meeting on Friday as to the outlook for international monetary policy. Borsa Istanbul’s BIST-100 share index rose 348.04 points (0.46 percent) to 76,464.35 at the...