Turkish police said Monday they had detained 43 people on suspicion of being foreign members of Daesh (ISIS) in a series of operations across Istanbul. Istanbul counter-terrorism police units captured the suspected militants on Friday in simultaneous raids on 15 homes, a police...

The Syrian regime Monday condemned the evacuation of hundreds of Syrian White Helmet rescue workers, calling it a "criminal operation" undertaken by "Israel and its tools". The rescue workers and their families crossed out of Syria into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights before arriving...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels have reopened the main road connects between northern Idlib city and the border crossing of Bab al-Hawa with Turkey after five-year-long closure caused by the siege of Shiite militants near the border.  The road is one of the most strategic...

Crossing into Syria from neighboring Lebanon, visitors are greeted by giant posters of President Bashar Assad. The signs proclaim: “Welcome to victorious Syria.” In the capital of Damascus, many of the checkpoints that for years have snarled traffic are gone. The city is...