Turkey will clean its entire border with Syria of terrorists, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, in a sign that a nine-day-old Turkish offensive into northern Syria's Afrin region could be extended further. Speaking at a congress of his ruling AK Party in the northern...

Iranian media say a naval destroyer has sunk in the Caspian Sea after crashing into a breakwater earlier this month. Mizan Online showed footage Sunday of the Damavand, which crashed on Jan. 10 during a storm, killing two crew members. The 100-meter long destroyer, which...

Heavy fighting resumed in Syria's Eastern Ghouta Sunday after a short period of relative calm following reports that a cease-fire had been agreed there late Friday, a war monitor and pro-government media sources said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war...

The Syrian regime and a war monitor said Sunday that Turkish shelling of the Kurdish-held Afrin region of Syria had seriously damaged an ancient temple. Ain Dara is an iron age temple with remains of large carved basalt blocks and wall reliefs. Pictures circulating online, which...