Syrian regime troops Friday reclaimed a cluster of towns they had lost early in the eight-year-old war, pressing their offensive in the northwest, the country's last big rebel stronghold. The army drove out the last rebel fighters from the Hama countryside – the latest in a string of...

Syrian regime forces surrounded a Turkish military observation post in the northwest on Friday after overrunning nearby areas, upping the stakes with Ankara in its Russian-backed offensive against the jihadist-ruled Idlib region. The move angered Turkey, with Foreign Minister Mevlut...

Syrian regime forces have opened a corridor in the country’s northwest for people who want to cross out of insurgent territory to army lines, state news agency SANA said on Thursday. Damascus “announces the opening of a humanitarian corridor in the (town) of Soran,” it said citing a...

All of Turkey's observation posts, formed under an agreement with Russia and Iran, will remain in place and support will continue to be provided to the posts, Turkish Presidential Spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said Wednesday. On Monday, a suspected Syrian army strike hit near a Turkish military...