Fighting between the Syrian army and Kurdish forces intensified late on Friday and into Saturday, creating the risk of yet another front opening in the multi-sided civil war. The two sides have mostly avoided confrontation during the five-year conflict, with the government focusing its efforts...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 13  people have been killed Friday in the northeastern city of Hasaka as clashes entesifed between regime forces and the U.S.-backed Kurdish militias, activists said. The Syrian regime carried out a second day of airstrikes and artillery bombardment,...

Turkey began freeing 38,000 prisoners on Wednesday, after announcing a penal reform that will make space for tens of thousands of suspects rounded up over last month's attempted coup. The reform was one of a series of measures outlined on Wednesday in two decrees under a state of emergency...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 17 people have been killed and 30 more have been wounded in vacuum missile attack targeted northern Idlib city, local activists said on Wednesday. The deadly missile attack rocked the city's center reducing whole blocks to rubble. Regime air force backed by Russian...