Chinese President Xi Jinping has told his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan that the two should deepen counter-terrorism cooperation, amid Chinese concern about ethnic Uighurs from its Xinjiang region fighting with militants in the Middle East. Uighurs are a largely Muslim, Turkic-speaking...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish militias have intensified aerial bombing on ISIS-held trritories in eastern Syria, killing and wounding dozens amid rise in displacement influx. On Sunday, 30 people, imcludig family members in an-Assadaiya and Ya'rub villages west of Raqqa city,Raqqa...

Syrian regime army captured an airbase in eastern Aleppo from ISIS Saturday, after more than two months of fierce clashes, a military source and activists said. The Jarrah airbase had been under ISIS control since January 2014, when the extremists seized it from rebels who had captured it a...

( The Guardian )- The Turkish president will seek to persuade Donald Trump to reverse his “mistaken and shortsighted” plan to arm Kurdish forces in Syria, announced as part of an American attempt to crush Islamic State’s final stronghold in Raqqa. US officials this week announced a...