The main Western-backed Syrian opposition has gained little by demanding the fall of President Bashar al-Assad other than fuelling killings and the refugee crisis, a senior official from Syrian's northern Kurdish region said on Monday. Syrian Kurds and their allies are finalizing plans...

Turkish Airlines says authorities at Istanbul's main airport have searched a plane bound for the central Turkish city of Kayseri over a bomb threat, the latest in a series of hoax scares targeting the company. The airline said flight TK2014 with 133 passengers on board was preparing for...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A prominent figure of  the Kurdih national Council has confirmed attacking many villages in Hasaka by the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and arresting young men to recruit them for fighting against the Islamic State, and arrested old...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Syrian young men, especially those lived in border towns with Lebanon, used to work in Lebanon before the revolution, due to lack of employment opportunity even for university graduated, as most of them worked in smuggling goods from Lebanon and sell in...