Turkey on Friday fired artillery into Syria to retaliate after cross-border shelling hit its territory without causing injuries or damage, the army said. "Six shells hit in Yayladadi in Hatay province and caused no damage," said the Turkish armed forces in a statement. "In...

The response was immediate and unequivocal: Weeks after the ouster of Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and mere days after popular protests spread across Egypt, Syria’s president insisted his country would not be next. Assad claimed his regime was ‘very closely linked...

Protests against the Syrian government has been on-going in the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor since March 2011, as part of the wider Syrian revolution, but large-scale clashes and attack and retreat battles have been taking place between rebels and regime forces on the outskirts of the Deir...

Turkey fired artillery into Syria to retaliate after a cross-border rocket from the war-torn country had slammed into a mosque, Turkish media said Monday amid heightened tensions. The rocket from Syria wounded an elderly Syrian refugee woman in Hatay province on...