Russian and Syrian jets stepped up their bombing of a Daesh bastion along the Jordan-Israel border in southwestern Syria, as the militants pushed into areas abandoned by other rebel groups, diplomatic and opposition sources said. Daesh-affiliated forces entrenched in the Yarmouk Basin,...

Jordan has allowed the UN to organize the passage of some 800 members of the White Helmets civil defense agency for humanitarian reasons, the Jordanian Foreign Ministry said.  According to a Saturday statement, ministry spokesman Mohamed al-Kayed said Amman responded to a request...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led Syrian forces on Saturday have freed 114 people in eastern Raqqa province after one month in detention, local activists said. Most of the freed people were civilians along with fighters from Liwa Thuwar al-Raqqa, the rival group to the US-backed Syrian...

At least 236 undocumented migrants were held across Turkey on Saturday, according to security sources. In the northwestern port city of Canakkale, 91 migrants were rounded up in the Ayvacik district, said a coast guard official, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking...