(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Kurdish militias seized 8 villages from the Islamic State near Markada town, the last ISIS stronghold in Hasaka province, local activists said on Sunday. Abdulmalek al-Ali said the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) had captured the town of al-Hasain in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two rebel groups clashed early Sunday near Bab al-Salama border crossing with Turkey after a week of handing over the crossing to the opposition government. Al-Shamiya Front has accused Sultan Murad Brigade of attacking its convoy in al-Hamran district in the northern...

The Turkish army is expanding its deployment in northwest Syria with the goal of encircling a Kurdish enclave and reining in Russian strikes in the Idlib border province under a deal to reduce clashes, rebels and witnesses said on Sunday. A convoy of Turkish army troops entered Syria...

BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan began voting on Sunday in a presidential election with no candidate expected to win outright and observers predicting a close runoff between two pro-Russian candidates, one of whom is backed by the outgoing leader. The mainly Muslim nation of 6 million...