(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) launched on Tuesday raid and arrest campaign chasing young men in Ras al-Ayn area in Hasaka province, local activists said. Activist Abdulmalek al-Ali from Hasaka Media Center said that PYD patrols and Asayish launched extensive arrest...

Frederic C. Hof is director of the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East. He advised Hillary Clinton on Syria at the State Department in 2012. Some 70 months ago, unarmed, ordinary Syrians rose peacefully against a regime whose incompetence and corruption they had come...

"It was the final time I saw Aleppo." Among a sea of sobbing men and hungry children Friday, Mohammad mourned his evacuation from his home town and Syria's second city. "It was catastrophic... I was kicked out of my homeland," the university professor told AFP in English at a staging ground...

More than 50 wounded civilians from Aleppo, many in serious condition, have been transferred to Turkey for treatment, the Turkish Red Crescent said Friday. The transfers came as rebel areas of Syria's war-torn second city were being evacuated in a massive operation which began Thursday but...