Georgia said Tuesday it had started procedures to sever diplomatic relations with Syria after Damascus recognized its breakaway regions as independent states, a move Tbilisi dubbed manipulation from Russia. Abkhazia and South Ossetia broke away from Georgia in wars in the early 1990s...

The Syrian regime army has completed preparations for an imminent offensive against rebel-held areas in southwestern Syria, a non-Syrian commander in a military alliance that backs Damascus said Tuesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights separately reported that rebels in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish army has started issuing ID cards for the residents and the newly-settled people in Afrin region near the border amid claims of demographic change by the Kurdish militias, activists told Zaman al-Wasl Monday. The move evoked fears of the Kurdish rights advocates...

The Syrian regime has submitted a list of names to the United Nations as candidates for inclusion in a constitutional committee, U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura told Reuters Monday. Formation of the committee, which will rewrite the Syrian constitution, was agreed at a Syrian peace...