There were moments during the days-long Turkish siege of a Syrian hospital that Raman Ouso did not think he would get out alive. The 27-year-old nurse was part of a small team of medics that stayed to help the wounded in the town of Ras al-Ain in northern Syria earlier this month despite an...

Kurds from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have withdrawn to 32 km (20 miles) away from the border with Turkey, Russia’s RIA news agency reported on Thursday, citing an SDF official. Kurds in the SDF group are ready to discuss joining the Syrian army once the crisis in Syria is...

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer met this week with Democratic lawmakers to try to resolve their concerns about the U.S.-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade agreement as Republicans increased pressure to get the deal passed by the end of 2019. Democrats said they were making progress...

More than 100 prisoners of Daesh (ISIS) have escaped in Syria in the chaos since Turkey's incursion, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday. "We would say the number is now over 100. We do not know where they are," James Jeffrey, the State Department pointman on Syria, told the House Foreign...