The border crossing between Jordan and Syria was opened on Monday after a three-year closure, according to a Jordanian government spokeswoman. “The Jaber-Naseeb border crossing will be open for 8 hours a day,” Jumana Ghunaimat said Monday. She said technical committees from...

A deadline passed Monday without militants leaving a planned buffer zone around Syria's last major rebel bastion of Idlib as set out under a Russian-Turkish deal. The radical fighters were supposed to withdraw from the buffer as a final condition to implementing a Russian-Turkish deal...

A Russian-Turkish deal to set up a buffer zone around Syria's last major rebel bastion hung by a thread Sunday, as jihadists showed no sign of withdrawing hours before a deadline. The accord also provides for the clearance of heavy weapons from a U-shaped zone around the northwestern...

Nineteen people, including children, died on Sunday when a vehicle carrying migrants reportedly heading for EU member Greece plunged off the highway into a waterway in western Turkey, state media said. The vehicle, believed to be a lorry, was travelling on a highway in the Izmir region...