A U.S.-backed Kurdish-led force battling the Islamic State group in Syria will be in control of Raqqa "within a few days" after attacking the last militant-held pocket of the city, a spokesman for the force said Monday. Mustafa Bali of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, or...

The Turkish army is expanding its deployment in northwest Syria with the goal of encircling a Kurdish enclave and reining in Russian strikes in the Idlib border province under a deal to reduce clashes, rebels and witnesses said on Sunday. A convoy of Turkish army troops entered Syria...

(Reuters) - Children returning to school in the northern Syrian city of al-Bab were handed a new textbook this term: “Türkçe Öğreniyorum” - “I am learning Turkish”. Turkish lessons, Turkish signposts, Turkish-trained police and mostrecently a Turkish post office all...

The U.S.-led coalition battling Daesh (ISIS) said Wednesday that it won't accept a negotiated withdrawal for hundreds of Daesh militants holed up in the Syrian city of Raqqa, once the extremists' de facto capital. The remarks by coalition spokesman, Col. Ryan Dillon, came as coalition...