Turkey's 2.6 million Syrian refugees may be straining the housing and jobs systems, but they're also fuelling economic growth. The world's largest refugee population has had a positive impact on Turkish output, economists and government officials say. It may be partly responsible...

EU leaders told Russia to stop bombing Western-backed opposition fighters in Syria and accused Moscow and Iran of threatening peace efforts, as well as helping Islamic State and worsening refugee flows in Europe. Leaders made the call a week after major powers agreed a pause in...

Russia asked the United Nations Security Council on Friday to call for Syria's sovereignty to be respected, for cross-border shelling and incursions to be halted and for "attempts or plans for foreign ground intervention" to be abandoned. Russia circulated a short draft...

Reporting by Mohamed Yateem; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime has been recruiting civilians and government employees to fight alongside the army that suffers severe shortage in manpower. For that, the army has opened number of recruiting camps where thousands of...