Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim Friday denounced as a "bare-faced lie" suggestions in Western media that Ankara's military operation in Syria was singling out Kurdish people rather than extremists. "They either know nothing about the world, or else their job is to report a bare-faced...

Ambulances and Red Crescent vehicles entered Syria’s besieged town of Daraya as thousands of rebels and civilians prepared to evacuate on Friday ahead of its takeover by government forces. It was unclear exactly when residents and fighters would start leaving the devastated town near the...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, will try to hammer out final details of a cooperation agreement on fighting ISIS in Syria during talks in Geneva Friday. The hope is that a deal will lead to a cessation of hostilities across Syria and relaunch...

 Syrian rebels, who this week seized a strategic town from Islamic State, aim to move westward in the next phase of their Turkey-backed operation, an advance that could take weeks or months to complete, a rebel commander said. Colonel Ahmad Osman, head of the Sultan Murad group, also told...