If the United States wants to invite Kurds to the upcoming Syrian peace talks it might as well invite ISIS, said Turkey's foreign minister Saturday whose country views Kurdish fighters in Syria as extremists. The Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed wing, the Kurdish Peoples'...

By Mohaled al-Hussein (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime backed by Iran and Russia, seeks to recruit the largest number of young men from the region of eastern Syria into the “Al-Jazira and Euphrates Mobilization” militias, the Fifth Legion- Storm Troopers, and the National Defense among...

Maintenance workers arrived in Syria's rebel-held Wadi Barada near Damascus Friday to fix the water facility there, signaling an end to the violent standoff that has dried out the capital for weeks and threatened a fragile cease-fire, activists and the government said. For days, negotiations...

 (New York Times)- Facebook is increasingly owning up to its role as one of the world’s largest distributors of information by taking more responsibility for the millions of stories that flow through its site. On Wednesday, the social network made its latest move to acknowledge that...