Germany’s Social Democrats approved on Sunday the start of formal coalition negotiations with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, after a heated debate at the party's extraordinary congress in the western city of Bonn. Some 362 delegates voted in favor of entering...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Former commander of the Eastern Front said the key FSA unit that operating near the Iraqi border has not been invited by the U.S. to join the Kurdish-led Border Force. Lieutenant Colonel Mohamed al-Aboud told Zaman al-Wasl that despite the reports of depending on the...

Around 500 Syrian fighters graduated on Saturday from a U.S.-led training course aimed at establishing a controversial "border security force" in the country's north. Last week, the U.S.-led coalition battling Daesh (ISIS) announced it had begun forming a 30,000-strong security force to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Co-chairman of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) Riad Darar rejected the idea that the "border security forces" that the Washington-led International Coalition intends to establish in Syria is means to divide Syria.  The International Coalation against Islamic...