Turkey is holding covert contacts with Syria’s regime to avert direct conflict in northeast Syria where both sides have deployed their armies, Turkish officials say, despite Ankara’s long-standing hostility to Bashar al-Assad. Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan backs rebels who...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian forces have set up a military camp in the Ghab plain in northwestern province of Hama, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The camp  was set up in the Jeb Al-Ghar last week west of Jourin camp, which is the largest military barrack of the Assad forces and...

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday Turkey would press on with its offensive into northeastern Syria and “crush the heads of terrorists” if a deal with Washington on the withdrawal of Kurdish fighters from the area was not fully implemented. Erdogan agreed on Thursday in talks...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian officials discussed with Bashar Assad in Damascus the need to de-escalate the situation in , northeast Syria, Russia’s foreign ministry said on Saturday, such a statement accompanied with heavy bombardment on northern Idlib province. Rescuing Civil...