Two pro-government fighters were killed in clashes with Kurdish forces in northeast Syria, Kurdish and security sources said Thursday, in a sign of rising tensions between the two sides. The two fighters of the National Defense Forces (NDF), a pro-regime Syrian militia, were killed in an...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian opposition hosted by Saudi Arabia elected former Prime Minister Riad Hijab as a coordinator of a body that is expected to lead future peace talks, Reuters  said on Thursday. Hijab, who defected from Syrian President Bashar al Assad's government in...

Washington is considering how to respond to an Iranian ballistic missile launch that violated U.N. Security Council resolutions, senior U.S. officials said on Thursday, as senators pressed for a strong reaction. "We are now actively considering the appropriate consequences to that...

Mohammed, 22, has lived in Turkey for four years since fleeing Syria, just months after the civil war erupted that has torn his homeland apart. But unlike hundreds of thousands of others who this year crossed the Aegean Sea in search of better lives in Europe, he has no plans to leave. "I...