(Reuters)- Kurdish militants ended a month-old ceasefire in Turkey Thursday, a day after President Tayyip Erdogan vowed to "liquidate" them, dashing hopes of any let-up in violence in the wake of a national election. The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group said the ruling AK Party,...

The Syrian state and allied militia have detained and abducted tens of thousands of people since 2011 in a campaign of enforced disappearances that is a crime against humanity, Amnesty International said in a report on Thursday. The rights watchdog interviewed relatives of the...

Warplanes believed to be Russian carried out several air strikes on Wednesday on areas of northwestern Syria that were included in a local ceasefire agreed by warring sides in September, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The strikes hit the outskirts of the towns of Maarat...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian insurgents took control of most of a town on a major highway in the west of the country after heavy battles with pro-government militias, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Thursday. Islamist insurgents from the Jund al-Aqsa group,...