Syrian regime forces have been reported as expanding their ground operations on Thursday in the Bayırbucak Turkmen area of the rural town of Latakia. Turkey’s Anadolu news agency reported local sources as saying that regime forces, with the support of Russian air strikes, conducted...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes have renewed in the northern province of Hasaka between Islamic State and Kurdish PYD forces, media activists said on Friday, reporting death of 8 militants from both sides.  Hasaka Media Center said PYD fighters backed by U.S.-led air...

(Today Zaman)- Turkey's top diplomat has sought to find a way to overcome the difference between Turkey and the US on the two sides' views of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed wing the People's Protection Units (YPG) in the fight against the terrorist Islamic State in...

Hundreds of innocent people have been killed in spectacular attacks claimed by Islamic State militants from Syria, but diplomats say major powers are no closer to a peace deal to end nearly five years of bloodshed and chaos there. Meeting in Vienna the day after Friday night's...