Turkey's prime minister accused Russia on Wednesday of attempted "ethnic cleansing" in northern Syria, saying Moscow was trying to drive out the local Turkmen and Sunni Muslim populations to protect its military interests in the region. Ahmet Davutoglu's comments could further...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 people killed and 20 wounded in Russian air strikes on the northern province of Aleppo, activists and Civil Defense volunteers said on Wednesday. The devastating Russian aerial campaign has targeted Aleppo's neighborhoods of Al Saliheen, Karm al Trab, Sheikh...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian air strikes on the embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs have killed 26 people, activists said Wednesday. Russia's aerial bombing targeted  al Abbadeh town east of the capital, leaving at least 8 people, , mostly children and women, dead and dozens wounded. 14...

  (Council On Foreign Relations- Philip H. Gordon) Of all the factors currently tearing the Middle East apart, none is more consequential than the war in Syria.  The war has left some 250,000 Syrians dead, seven million internally displaced, and three million forced to flee to...