Defeating jihadists in Idlib is the key to ending Syria's eight-year-old civil war, Bashar al-Assad said Tuesday on his first visit to the embattled northwestern region since 2011. "The battle of Idlib is the basis for resolving chaos and terrorism in all other areas of Syria," Assad's...

In a hospital in northeastern Syria, a nurse tends to a Kurdish fighter recovering from burns to his face sustained in battle against advancing Turkish troops. "My dimples used to be like yours, but I lost one," Suleiman Qahraman tells the nurse, smiling timidly to avoid hurting his...

Turkey will press on with its military operation in northeast Syria “with determination” after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire expires later on Tuesday if promises given by Washington have not been kept, President Tayyip Erdogan said. Turkey says all Kurdish YPG militia forces must leave a...

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was on Tuesday to meet Russia's Vladimir Putin, hours ahead of a deadline for Kurdish fighters to withdraw from Syrian border areas or face a renewed Turkish assault. The two were expected to discuss Turkey's insistence on the creation of a "safe...