The main Syrian opposition alliance dubbed as "hostile" forces Wednesday Kurdish groups that control large swathes of the country's north after they proclaimed provisional self-rule.   Kurdish militia, dominated by the Democratic Union Party (PYD),...

Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad captured a suburb of Damascus on Wednesday, part of a broader advance that has brought him major gains south of the capital before proposed international peace talks, activists said. The fall of the rebel-held town of Hujaira, next to a...

The Syrian army advanced Wednesday on the Islamist-held northern village of Tal Hassel, a monitor said, as jihadist rebels in nearby Aleppo called for mass mobilisation to counter the offensive. Fighting raged at Tal Hassel, located about 12 kilometres (seven miles) from Aleppo, the...

  Syrian Kurds in the northeast have formed a transitional autonomous government, they said in a statement Tuesday, after making key territorial gains against jihadists in recent weeks. The latest declaration comes amid a general strengthening of Kurdish...