U.S. troops and an allied Syrian militia conducted a joint patrol Wednesday in a town on the border with Turkey, a Kurdish news agency and a Syria war monitor reported. The move appeared to be part of an agreement to set up a safe zone along Syria's northeast border. Turkey sees the Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A mass grave was exhumed Tuesday from a school in Raqqa city, the First Response Team of Raqqa Local Council said. Yaser al-Khamis, head of the team said thirteen bodies were recovered from a school in the Badu (Bedouins) neighborhood in Raqqa city, saying the grave is...

A senior Syrian Kurdish official says the creation of a so-called "safe zone" in northeastern Syria is off to good start, with U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces pulling back from an initial part of the border with Turkey. But she says calm can only prevail if Turkey also removes its troops....

The value of the Syrian pound against the dollar has fallen sharply to its lowest rate in history, an economic publication said Tuesday. On the black market on Tuesday, the pound was trading at 650 against the dollar (715 to the euro). It's "the lowest in history", Jihad...