Turkey has not been able to confirm reports that a senior Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) commander had been killed in Syria, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Monday, in what would be a major blow to Kurdish militants. Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Saturday that a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Tens of Nusra Front fighters and their families to leave the besieged Yarmouk refugee camp, heading Idlib province in the coming days due to a deal reached with the Syrian regime south of Damascus, local reporter said on Monday. The first batch will be for wounded fighters and...

Jordan has given employers hiring Syrian refugees an additional three months to get work permits for them without paying fees. The Labor Ministry said Monday that 13,000 Syrians received work permits during an initial three-month waiver period ending last week, and that the program has been...

The Syrian regime on Monday sent columns of armored vehicles into the Daraya suburb west of Damascus in the largest deployment of its kind since it imposed a siege on the area in 2012. "The incursion, which is backed by [pro-regime] militias, is massive," Tamam Abu al-Khair, a member of the...