Turkey is waiting to see the outcome of U.S. President Donald Trump's pledge to order safe zones in Syria, but has long advocated such a plan, Turkish foreign ministry spokesman Huseyin Muftuoglu said Thursday. Trump said Wednesday he "will absolutely do safe zones in Syria" for refugees...

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump did not consult Russia before announcing a plan to establish safe zones for refugees in Syria, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday. "No, our American partners did not consult with us. It's a sovereign decision," Peskov...

The major Syrian Islamist rebel group Ahrar al-Sham said Thursday that six other rebel factions had merged with it in northwestern Syria, in response to a major assault on these factions by a powerful extremist group. Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly allied with al-Qaeda as the Nusra...

(Daily Sabah)- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved the construction of 2,500 new settlement units in the occupied West Bank, according to a statement issued by his office on Tuesday. The approval is the second of its kind since Donald Trump assumed the U.S. presidency last...