NATO members Ankara and Athens announced on Monday they had agreed to resume on Jan. 25 long-suspended exploratory talks over disputed offshore rights in the Mediterranean, which brought them close to conflict last year. Turkey angered Greece and the European Union last year when it deployed...

A Russian military police patrol deployed over the weekend in the town of Malikiyah in Syria's northeastern-most region, near oil fields and the Turkish borders, and adjacent to the highway linking the city of Qamishli and the Semalka border crossing to the Kurdistan Regio. The highway is...

The United Nations has confirmed to Middle East Eye that it used a US-sanctioned Syrian airline accused of ferrying fighters and weapons on behalf of Bashar al-Assad and Khalifa Haftar to transport aid to Libya.  Images posted on Twitter by the UN's World Health Organisation on Monday...

BEIRUT: Daesh terrorists killed at least eight regime loyalists in eastern Syria on Monday, the latest in a series of deadly extremist attacks, a Britain-based war monitor reported. Five Syrian soldiers and three pro-regime militia fighters were among those killed in the Daesh attack on one...