(The Telegraph)- Russia is to build a base and send military personnel to northern Syria to train the YPG, the US-backed Kurdish group, the militia has said.   Redur Xelil, a spokesman for the group, said troops with armoured vehicles had already arrived near the town of Afrin, 25 miles...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Six people have been killed Tuesday in Syrian missile attack on the town of Kafr Owayyed in Idlib province, residents told Zaman al-Wasl. The attack has also left 3 people wounded. In its turn, the regime warplanes have conducted air strikes on Jisr al-Shughour town and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 200 civilians were killed and wounded early Tuesday in U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on a school inhibited by 50 displaced families in the eastern countryside of Aleppo, activists said. Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, civil campaign tracks the atrocities in...

The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said Russia was setting up a military base in northwestern Syria under a bilateral agreement and will help train its fighters - a step that would anger Turkey as it tries to block Kurdish gains near its borders. The Russian defense ministry, however, said it had...