Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party elected new leaders Sunday, at a congress that party officials said authorities had tried to stop by arresting hundreds of would-be attendees. The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) met to replace Selahattin Demirtas, its leader since June 2014 and the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed forces launched new attack on Daesh (ISIS) in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor province, pushing to isolate the radical group in a territory located near the Iraq border, source told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday. The Syrian Democratic Forces backed by the...

A US-backed Kurdish-led force in Syria on Friday confirmed capturing British jihadist Alexanda Amon Kotey last month as he attempted to flee from Syria to Turkey. Redur Khalil, a spokesperson and senior official in the Syrian Democratic Forces, said his fighters had captured many wanted...

Fresh air strikes hit the Syrian rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta on Friday, AFP correspondents reported, the fifth straight day of a bombing campaign that has killed more than 220 civilians. Syrian warplanes have battered the enclave's towns since Monday, trapping thousands of families in...