(Zaman Al Wasl)- A car bombing claimed by the Islamic State group killed five people, including three children, in a Kurdish-held town in northeast Syria Wednesday, an activist group said. The explosive-rigged vehicle detonated in Al-Qahtaniya, a town in Hasaka province, said the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- One person was killed and two more people were wounded Tuesday by an improvised explosive device in eastern Raqqa province, a citizen journalist group said. Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently said Mohamed al-Aydan, local official in the Kurdish Democratic Union was...

After 18 months of threats, Turkey's president warned Tuesday that his troops could attack Kurdish-held areas of northeast Syria "very soon". Why would Turkey lead such a cross-border incursion, what do Syria's Kurds want, and how is the United States -- an ally of both sides -- trying to...

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Tuesday any Turkish operation into northern Syria would be "unacceptable" and the United States would prevent unilateral incursions, as tensions between Washington and Ankara simmer. On Sunday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey, which already...