A Turkish court Thursday sentenced a lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish opposition party to 16 years and 8 months in prison, broadcaster CNN Turk and other media said, nearly one year after his arrest over terror charges. Idris Baluken, a lawmaker for the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic...

(Zaman Al Wasl- After the use of mi-7 and mi-8 helicopters to drop barrels bombs on opposition-held areas,the Syrian regime has begun relying on the 618th naval helicopters squadron, sources said.  The helicopters in the Squadron are of the model mi-14 and Kamof-28 in its war on...

 Syria's Bashar Assad Monday issued a decree appointing new ministers for defense, industry and information, state television reported, such a news followed corruption claims chased his close war aides. SANA did not give a reason for the government reshuffle that comes at...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said he expects relations with Germany to improve in 2018. In an interview with German news agency DPA published on Monday, Cavusoglu said: "The first three quarters of 2017 were not very good, but we made some progress since then....