The Syria war is escalating in tandem with intensified diplomacy, but neither growing foreign military intervention nor a revived political track look capable of bringing an end to the 4-1/2-year-old conflict. The risk is a more ferocious proxy war between President Bashar...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists reported Thursday a fierce fighting between Syrian regime troops backed by Shiite militants and Turkmen fighters in the mountainous Latakia province near the Turkish border. Regime forces have taken Burj al Zahiyah village in the main stronghold of Syrian Turkmen...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday dismissed "emotional" and "unfitting" suggestions that projects with Russia could be cancelled following Turkey's downing of a Russian warplane near the Syrian border. In an escalating war of words, he responded to Russian accusations that...

Russia threatened economic retaliation against Turkey on Thursday and said it was still awaiting a reasonable explanation for the shooting down of its warplane, but Turkey dismissed the threats as "emotional" and "unfitting". In an escalating war of words, President Tayyip...