The chief of NATO says he's in touch with both Germany and Turkey regarding their latest dispute over visiting rights to a Turkish air base where German soldiers are stationed. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told German daily newspaper Bild on Sunday he's focused on finding a solution...

 The United States has proposed to Russia a plan for managing an increasingly complex battlefield in Syria's main oil-producing region, where U.S.-backed forces fighting Islamic extremists are in conflict with Russian-backed Syrian forces. Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford declined to describe...

By Jonathan Spyer ( Foreign Policy )- On my last night in Damascus, some younger members of the Information Ministry-sponsored delegation in which I was taking part decided to have a drink. It was late April, and the bars and restaurants were doing good business in the cool and breezy...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces took Friday three villages from the Islamic State east of Raqaa city after heavy clashes with  the radical group, activists said. Two villages left east of al-Balikh River under ISIS control. Its fall means all eastern...