An enormous fire raged across several wheat fields outside this town on July 6. It was a dry summer day and dark smoke towered over the countryside as the flames spread across the farmland. Some locals watched in awe at the inferno. Others tried to fight back with shovels and rakes. They had...

Security forces on Thursday arrested nine Syrian citizens in western Turkey for their suspected links to the Daesh terror group. The security forces learned that there were Daesh suspects in the Aegean province of Izmir after they examined the digital documents seized in operations in other...

Regime forces captured two villages from jihadists and allied rebels in northwest Syria on Thursday following deadly clashes, days after ditching a ceasefire for the area, a war monitor said. The villages of Al-Sakhr and Al-Jaysat in Hama province came under regime control, the Syrian...

A top Syrian Kurdish official gave a guarded welcome Thursday to a US-Turkish agreement to establish a joint operations centre for the north but said the details remained unclear. "This deal may mark the start of a new approach but we still need more details," Aldar Khalil told AFP. "We...