Pro-coup soldiers, who attacked a hotel which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his family were vacationing in during Friday’s deadly coup, said they were ordered to "capture an important terrorist leader". Speaking on the condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to the media,...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Dozens of casualties among regime forces resulted from battles to regain important sites in Jabal al-Akrad in the countryside of Latakia, when rebels besieged the Shalaf castle and exploded a car bomb among defeated forces in the village of Wadi...

Turkey vowed to root out allies of the U.S.-based cleric it blames for an abortive coup last week, widening a purge of the army, police and judiciary on Tuesday to universities and schools, the intelligence agency and religious authorities. Around 50,000 soldiers, police, judges, civil...

 New British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson called on Tuesday for Russia and other states to demand Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down as he prepared for his first meeting with Western counterparts on Syria's intractable civil war. Johnson will meet peers from Germany, France,...