Around 1,500 Syrian Kurdish refugees, mostly women and children, returned from Turkey to northern Syrian town of Ayn al-Arab, also known as Kobani, on Wednesday. The refugees crossed the border from Mursitpinar border gate, located in the southern Turkish district of Suruc,...

The United States does not appear to have clear-cut legal authority to protect Syrian rebels it trains from attack by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, even under new war powers, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Wednesday. Still, Carter told Congress, a...

Aid agencies said on Thursday that 2014 was the worst year of the Syrian conflict so far and that three United Nations Security Council resolutions aimed at alleviating the suffering had failed. Syria's crisis started in March 2011 with protests against the government and...

Islamist rebels on Wednesday have recaptured strategic village of Dorien in coastal Latakia province, days since the strategic area was seized by Syrian regime forces, activists said. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE...