Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday a U.S.-backed offensive against Islamic State in northern Syria was largely being carried out by Arab rather than Kurdish fighters, in a sign of tacit approval for the operation near Turkey's borders. The Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Unknown assailants on Thursday shot dead 6 Ahrar al-Sham fighters in an attack on their checkpoint near the regime-held town of Kafriya in Idlib province, source told Zaman al-Wasl.  The assailants used silenced pistols in the attack , according to the source. The...

Thousands of U.S.-backed fighters opened a major new front in Syria's war, launching an offensive to drive Islamic State out of a swathe of northern Syria it uses as a logistics base and appearing to make swift initial battlefield advances. The operation, which began on Tuesday after weeks of...

The besieged Syrian town of Daraya, a rebel-held suburb of Damascus where President Bashar al-Assad has refused to allow aid to starving Syrians, got its first U.N. aid convoy since 2012 on Wednesday. Russia's Defence Ministry said a temporary ceasefire, which it called a "regime of calm", had...