Turkey’s spy chief Ibrahim Kalin has held talks in Tehran with his Iranian counterpart to discuss the fight against “terror” groups and the situation in Syria, state news agency Anadolu reported. Kalin met with Iran’s Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib as well as security chief Ali...

The transitional government’s troops carried out mop-up operations in the settlements of Akkum, Bizaah, Haveiq, El Jurud and El Fadiliyah, where armed gangs are active  Syria’s new authorities conducted an operation against smugglers and supporters of the previous government, the...

A car bomb on Monday killed 20 people, mostly women farm workers, in the northern Syrian city of Manbij where Kurdish forces are battling Turkey-backed groups, state media reported. Citing White Helmet rescuers, SANA news agency said there had been a “massacre” on a local road, with...

Gunmen killed at least 10 people, including dissolved army officers, on Friday in an attack on a village from former president Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite minority, in what the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights called a "massacre". The war monitor said the attacks “bear all the hallmarks...