The U.N. political chief said reports suggest that more than 100,000 people in Syria have been detained, abducted or gone missing during the eight-year conflict, with the government mainly responsible. Rosemary DiCarlo urged the warring parties Wednesday to heed the Security Council's call...

 Turkey's Defense Ministry said Wednesday it agreed with the United States to establish a joint operation centre in Turkey to coordinate and manage a planned safe zone in northern Syria. Turkey and the United States, allies in NATO, have been deadlocked for months over the scope and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A car bombing claimed by the Islamic State group killed five people, including three children, in a Kurdish-held town in northeast Syria Wednesday, an activist group said. The explosive-rigged vehicle detonated in Al-Qahtaniya, a town in Hasaka province, said the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- One person was killed and two more people were wounded Tuesday by an improvised explosive device in eastern Raqqa province, a citizen journalist group said. Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently said Mohamed al-Aydan, local official in the Kurdish Democratic Union was...