Around 1,500 Syrian Kurdish refugees, mostly women and children, returned from Turkey to northern Syrian town of Ayn al-Arab, also known as Kobani, on Wednesday. The refugees crossed the border from Mursitpinar border gate, located in the southern Turkish district of Suruc,...

Aid agencies said on Thursday that 2014 was the worst year of the Syrian conflict so far and that three United Nations Security Council resolutions aimed at alleviating the suffering had failed. Syria's crisis started in March 2011 with protests against the government and...

Islamist rebels on Wednesday have recaptured strategic village of Dorien in coastal Latakia province, days since the strategic area was seized by Syrian regime forces, activists said. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE...

(Reuters) - Iraqi security forces and militias fought their way into Saddam Hussein's home city of Tikrit on Wednesday, advancing from the north and south in their biggest counter-offensive so far against Islamic State militants. In a possible response to the fighting north of...