Kurdish fighters have expelled jihadists from the Syrian flashpoint frontier town of Ras al-Ain near Turkey, a watchdog said Wednesday, adding that only the border crossing remains under the extremists' control, according to AFP.   Kurdish fighters "have taken near-total control of...

Five thousand people a month are dying in Syria's war, which has now generated the worst refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan genocide, UN officials said. A host of top officials called on the divided UN Security Council to take stronger action to deal with the fallout from the two-year-old...

    As many as 6,000 foreign fighters from nearly 50 nations have now joined the brutal 2½-year civil war to unseat President Bashar Assad of Syria. The vast majority are veterans from the the Arab Springs of Libya, Tunisia and Egypt. Islamist volunteers from Yemen, Somalia,...

Fierce clashes erupted early today in Serekaniye (Raes al-Ein), north-east Syria between Jihdis and the armed wing of of Democratic Union Party (PYD). The sources of Zaman alwasl and Firat news said that Jabhat Al Nusra Front had launched an attack targeting a patrolling car of...