The Kurdish YPG militia launched a major assault on Monday to seize the last government-controlled parts of the northeastern Syrian city of Hasaka after calling on pro-government militias to surrender, Kurdish forces and residents said. They said Kurdish forces began the offensive after...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl obtained a confidential document demonstrating that the Syrian General Intelligence had a assigned special group to monitor the Facebook profiles of rebels and activists from the start of the revolution and this group raised reports to the branch head under the...

One person was killed and two others went missing after a boat carrying 15 refugees capsized in the Aegean Sea, a security source said Sunday. The boat had set sail from Cesme town in western Turkey's Izmir province on Sunday morning before it capsized on its way to the Greek island of...

Hundreds of Syrian rebels are preparing to launch an operation to capture a town held by Islamic State at the border with Turkey, a senior Syrian rebel said on Sunday, a move that would frustrate Kurdish hopes to expand further in that area. The rebels, Turkey-backed groups fighting under the...