Hundreds of Syrian rebels are preparing to launch an operation to capture a town held by Islamic State at the border with Turkey, a senior Syrian rebel said on Sunday, a move that would frustrate Kurdish hopes to expand further in that area. The rebels, Turkey-backed groups fighting under the...

At least 15 people were killed in a Russian cluster bomb attack late Saturday in northern Syria’s Aleppo province. Russian warplanes struck a rural town in Aleppo’s Atarib district with cluster bombs, a local civil defense official told Anadolu Agency. “At least 15 people were killed...

By Adnan Abdelrazak (Zaman Al Wasl)- Since Turkey changed its policy towards Syria the revolution, from threats and the possibility of reaching a confrontation for the sake of Syrians freedom and to bring al-Assad down, even if through the military branches inside, to the “more than...

Fighting between the Syrian army and Kurdish forces intensified late on Friday and into Saturday, creating the risk of yet another front opening in the multi-sided civil war. The two sides have mostly avoided confrontation during the five-year conflict, with the government focusing its efforts...