Turkish Parliament Speaker Ismail Kahraman on Thursday criticized European countries for closing their borders to Syrian refugees. Speaking at European Conference of Presidents of Parliament in Strasbourg, France, Kahraman criticized certain European countries over "building walls [to block]...

(Washington Post)- The remains of three Americans who died in Syria after joining a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia to fight the Islamic State are expected to be repatriated Wednesday, members of their families and a congressional source said. The bodies of Levi Shirley, William Savage and Jordan...

Syrian government forces and rebels had yet to withdraw from a road needed to deliver aid to the city of Aleppo on Thursday, threatening the most serious international peacemaking effort in months as the sides accused each other of violating a truce. The aid delivery to rebel-held eastern...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists circulated photos showing American flags waving in YPG-held Tel Abyad town near the Turkish border, amid conflicted reports that the place is a U.S. military base.   Local activists said YPG had raised the flags in al-Monbateh village to avoid Turkey-backed...