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...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has signed into law a new bill expanding the powers of a government ministry overseeing religious affairs and limiting the term of the country’s top Muslim cleric. The draft, which state media reported Assad had signed into law Friday, had been amended...

Rebels have fired mortar shells from a planned buffer zone in northwest Syria, an activist group said Sunday, days after they were meant to have withdrawn such weapons from the area. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said rebels in the zone fired several "mortar shells at an army...