Turkey and the United States are working on plans to provide air cover for Syrian rebels and jointly sweep Islamic State fighters from a strip of land along the Turkish border, bolstering the NATO member's security and possibly providing a safe haven for civilians. Long a...

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir on Monday accused Iran of making threats against Riyadh's ally, Bahrain, which he said showed that the Islamic republic was harboring hostile designs against its Middle Eastern neighbors. Speaking at a joint news conference with visiting...

Two bombs hit the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in northeastern Syria Monday, wounding at least three people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The first blast hit a patrol of Kurdish fighters from the People's Protection Units (YPG) and wounded three people, the Britain-based...

ISIS fighters on Monday have withdrawn from their last stronghold near Kobani town in the eastern countryside of Aleppo after a fierce fighting with Free Syria Army and Kurdish People’s Protection Units, according to Zaman al-Wasl. The radical Sunni group dubbed its withdrawal’ from the...