(Zaman Al Wasl)-- Syrian rebels have reached a ceasefire deal with rival Jaysh al-Thuwar group in the northern countryside of Aleppo province, local reporter said Saturday. The ceasefire came to end a series of skirmishes between both sides along the the last two months. Rebels took towns of...

Turkey is "closely watching" Russian troop movements in Syria near its border, a government source in Ankara said Friday, after reports that Russian servicemen had deployed in the Syrian border town of Qamishli. Britain-based monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights had said that Russia...

Syrian Kurds must be represented at peace talks in Geneva or they will fail, a Syrian Kurdish leader said Friday, adding that one of the opposition groups involved, Jaysh al-Islam, had the "same mentality" as al Qaeda and ISIS. "If there are some parties that are effective in this Syria issue...

The Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) has ratcheted up pressure on ethnic Assyrians and Yazidis living in parts of Syria under its control while claiming that it is fighting the Daesh militant group, Afram Yakoub, the president of the Assyrian Federation of Sweden, told Anadolu Agency on...