(Zama, Al Wasl)- A Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army on Wednesday has recaptured a border town in Aleppo province from the Islamic State, activist said. The ISIS-run Amaq new agency said earlier Wednesday that the radical group fighters had taken control of Akhtarin town near the Turkish border,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- As changing distribution of power within the city of Aleppo appeared to have stopped, western and Arab media began speaking about a stop in the Great Epic Battle of Aleppo in conjunction with a Turkish newspaper publishing leaked documents of an American-Russian deal about...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel Wednesday accused Syrian government troops of committing "crimes against humanity" that could not be overlooked. Human rights groups and Western countries have previously accused Syria's army, backed by Russia's air force, of targeting hospitals, bakeries and...

The Pentagon says a U.S. airstrike in Syria this month killed what the Defense Department describes as a senior al-Qaeda leader who once had ties to Osama bin Laden. A Pentagon spokesman, Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, identifies the target as Haydar Kirkan. The spokesman says Kirkan oversaw the...