Turkey is opening its Yayladagi border gate with Syria to manage the safe and voluntary return of the millions of Syrian migrants it hosts, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, after President Bashar al-Assad’s sudden ouster by opposition fighters. In one of the biggest turning...

An Israeli strike targeted an air defense installation near Syria’s Mediterranean Latakia port, Syrian security sources said on Monday.

The Turkey-based Syrian opposition said on Monday that Turkey was participating in rescuing detainees from Syrian prisons, including the notorious Saydnaya prison.

Sixty-one years of Baath Party rule in Syria collapsed on Sunday when the capital Damascus fell out of the hands of regime control. The Arab Socialist Baath Party had come to power in Syria in 1963, in a coup. In 1970, Hafez al-Assad – the father of Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s newly deposed...