SOFIA- The European Union Thursday called for a swift restart of the stalled United Nations peace talks for Syria, worried by Russia's efforts to tighten the grip on power of its ally, President Bashar Assad. The U.N. talks in Geneva have made little progress during seven years of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources told Zaman al-Wasl that regime president Bashar al-Assad will issue a decree granting a general amnesty to opposotion detainees over a Russian demand. Russia is pressing on the Assad regime to show a good-will sign ahead of the planned peace talks...

Turkish and Free Syrian Army forces liberated the village of Durakli in northern Afrin on Thursday, during Operation Olive Branch, according to Anadolu Agency correspondents on the ground. The village is located in the town of Bulbul in northern Afrin. Including Durakli, since...

urkish military and Free Syrian Army cleared another village of PYD/PKK terrorists in northwestern Syria near the Turkish border on Wednesday. According to an Anadolu Agency correspondent in the region, a joint operation was launched in the village of Qude in the northwest of Afrin....