Syria’s new defense minister said on Sunday it would not be right for US-backed Kurdish fighters based in the country’s northeast to retain their own bloc within the broader integrated Syrian armed forces. Speaking to Reuters at the Defense Ministry in Damascus, Murhaf Abu Qasra said the...

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said that the international community must stand by the Syrian people on their path to building a democratic future. The British Foreign Office announced in a statement on Saturday that Minister Lammy will head to the Saudi capital, Riyadh, to...

Military operations continued in northern Syria on Friday, with a noticeable escalation between Turkish forces and allied Syrian factions, on the one hand, and the US-backed  Kurdish militias, which led to deaths of dozens over the week. Informed sources told Zaman al-Wasl that Turkish...

Battles between Turkish-backed groups, supported by airstrikes, and Kurdish-led forces killed 37 people on Thursday in Syria’s northern Manbij region, a war monitor said. The latest reported fighting comes despite the United States saying Wednesday that it was working to address...