The United Kingdom is not sure that Russia's announced pullout from Syria is genuine, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond told reporters Wednesday in Baghdad. "If it turns out to be a genuine pullout – and we don't know that," he said of Russia's announcement that it would withdraw some of...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia has on Monday, the first day of the second round of Geneva3 talks to resolve the Syrian crisis, suddenly announced decision of withdrawing the majority of its forces from Syria the very next day, according to President Vladimir Putin and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Kurdish internal security forces arrested 60 members of National Defense Forces, a pro-regime militia in the northeastern city of Qamishli Wednesday, activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the Syrian conflict through a network...

Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Syria were expected to imminently declare a federal system, a move likely to further complicate peace talks in Geneva on ending more than five years of war. Russia pulled more warplanes out of Syria, a new delivery of humanitarian aid reached...