Turkey is determined to preserve the de-escalation zone in Idlib, Syria despite the violations of cease-fire and the brutality of Assad regime, the country’s presidential spokesman said on Friday. Turkey’s Ibrahim Kalin met visiting US special envoy for Syria James Jeffrey and his...

Four army forces were killed and 12 more wounded when an ISIS-planted landmine rocked their vehicle in the central Homs province, pro-regime activists said Friday. The mine blast took place in the Syrian desert, known as Badia, east of Homs city where the radical group is still...

A deadly battle between Lebanese Sunnis and Shi'ites overnight prompted warnings of more violence as the country is pushed to breaking point by a financial meltdown and political tensions. Two people - a 13-year-old Lebanese Sunni boy and a Syrian man - were killed in the Khaldeh area south...

The United States plans to reduce its military force in Iraq from the current 5,200 to about 3,500 by November, US officials said Friday. The cut would be in line with President Donald Trump's repeated call to bring troops home and his reelection campaign pledge to end what he calls "endless...