Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Thursday said they had reached a ceasefire agreement for the northwestern Syrian town of Idlib. "At 00.01 tonight, as in, from midnight, the ceasefire will be put in place," Erdogan said, following...

Israeli fighter jets fired missiles towards military positions in central Syria early on Thursday, according to Syrian state media and an opposition war monitor. State news agency SANA said that Israeli warplanes launched the missiles while flying over Lebanon's airspace, and reported...

President Bashar al-Assad said Tuesday that parliamentary elections would be held in war-torn Syria on April 13. The polls, to be held across government-controlled parts of Syria, are the third such elections in the country since the start of its nine-year civil war. Assad's forces...

Turkish news channels have been dominated this week by a steady stream of black-and-white drone footage showing the destruction of Syrian regime targets in rebel-held Idlib. Domestically produced drones have given Turkey a vital edge in its latest operation against Syrian forces. They have...