(Foreign Affairs)- With U.S.-made antitank missiles finding their way to Syrian rebels and Russian fighter jets pummeling the same rebels and supplying the Bashar al-Assad regime with antiaircraft missile systems, it might seem easy to describe the battle in Syria as a proxy war. But that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air strikes on the embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs have killed 18 people on Sunday, activists and medics said. Regime's missile attack on Zamalka outskirt east of the capital has left at least 15 people dead and dozens wounded. Three more people have lost...

Since Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet last week, the United States has quietly put on hold a long-standing request for its NATO ally to play a more active role in the U.S.-led air war against Islamic State. The move, disclosed to Reuters by a U.S. official, is aimed at...

The amount of oil being smuggled into Turkey from Syria was not enough for anyone to profit from it significantly, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Friday, rejecting claims by Russia that top Turkish officials were benefitting by smuggling oil from areas of Syria...