The Kremlin said on Tuesday Russia was hoping to minimize the risk of a direct clash with Turkey in Syria even though soldiers from both countries were in close proximity in Idlib region on different sides of a live conflict. Moscow was commenting a day after Syrian government forces...

A Turkish fighter jet downed a Syrian regime warplane over the northwestern Idlib province Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said after nine civilians were killed in regime airstrikes, in the third such downing in three days. Turkey on Sunday confirmed it had...

The EU's top diplomat and its crisis-management chief set off for Turkey Tuesday after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned he could allow millions of refugees to head for Europe. EU High Representative Josep Borrell and Commissioner Janez Lenarcic will spend two days in the country for...

At a maternity hospital in northwest Syria, an alarm flashes at the main entrance to alert staff. It’s not patients en route to the hospital. It’s warplanes. Doctors at the hospital face a daily struggle to care for expectant mothers amid a Syrian government assault that has driven deep...