Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Saturday called on the United States to give unconditional support in the fight against Syrian Kurdish militants, illustrating growing tension between Ankara and Washington over policy in northern Syria. Davutoglu also said Turkey would...

A Saudi group has sent 21 trucks of humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees seeking shelter in southern Turkey. Speaking to Anadolu Agency at the entrance of Elbeyli Refugee Camp, the head of the Saudi National Campaign for Support Brothers in Syria office in Turkey, Khaled al-Salama, said they...

Syria's opposition on Saturday said it had agreed to the "possibility" of a temporary truce, provided there were guarantees Damascus's allies including Russia would cease fire, sieges were lifted and aid deliveries allowed country-wide. Russian airstrikes began last September and turned the...

A Syrian journalist arrested in Turkey while applying for a residence permit says he has been freed. In a message posted Saturday on Facebook, Rami Jarrah said Turkish authorities have released him without charges. He said he had not been given an explanation for his arrest on Wednesday, but...

Syria's government says Turkish artillery shelling inside Syria is an "outrageous violation" of international law. In a statement published by the state-run SANA news agency Saturday, it accused Turkey of committing "crimes" against the Syrians by firing artillery shells at areas in the...

Syria's regime army and allied  militias, backed by Russian air strikes, recaptured 18 villages from Islamic State fighters in eastern Aleppo province on Saturday, a monitoring group said. The advance extended their control of parts of a road running towards the jihadist group's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Saturday have killed at least 24 regime forces and allied militants in the northwestern province of Latakia, local activists said.   Rebels launched surprise attacks on the army posts near Kansba village in Jabal al-Akrad, killing 16 soldiers, while 8 more...

Turkey's 2.6 million Syrian refugees may be straining the housing and jobs systems, but they're also fuelling economic growth. The world's largest refugee population has had a positive impact on Turkish output, economists and government officials say. It may be partly responsible...

EU leaders told Russia to stop bombing Western-backed opposition fighters in Syria and accused Moscow and Iran of threatening peace efforts, as well as helping Islamic State and worsening refugee flows in Europe. Leaders made the call a week after major powers agreed a pause in...

Russia asked the United Nations Security Council on Friday to call for Syria's sovereignty to be respected, for cross-border shelling and incursions to be halted and for "attempts or plans for foreign ground intervention" to be abandoned. Russia circulated a short draft...

Reporting by Mohamed Yateem; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime has been recruiting civilians and government employees to fight alongside the army that suffers severe shortage in manpower. For that, the army has opened number of recruiting camps where thousands of...

Canadians remain divided about the resettlement of Syrian refugees, with some saying Canada should accept more despite a series of racist incidents that have marred a mostly smooth arrival of nearly 25,000 migrants, a poll showed on Friday. Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...

French President Francois Hollande on Friday said Ankara's escalating involvement in the Syrian conflict was creating a risk of war between Turkey and Russia. "Turkey is involved in Syria... There, there is a risk of war," Hollande told France Inter radio. "That is why...

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday warned there was "a lot more work to do" for a ceasefire in Syria, as Kurdish-led forces seized a key town from the Islamic State group. "Everyone recognises the complexity of this endeavour, and there is certainly a lot more work to do,"...

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said moderate Syrian rebels should be armed with surface-to-air missiles against the Russian-backed Syrian army, a German news weekly reported Friday. Anti-aircraft weapons could tip the scales on the battlefield as they did in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan in the...

(The Guardian)- A Syrian journalist who was raised in Britain, and who has been living for five years in Turkey, was detained by the Turkish immigration authorities on Wednesday (17 February) after applying for residency. The reasons for the arrest of Rami Jarrah are unclear although a...

A Kurdish-led alliance backed by U.S.-led strikes seized a stronghold of ISIS in northeastern Syria on Friday, activists said. The Syrian Democratic Forces were now in full control of Al-Shadadi in Hassakeh province, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said. The...

Austria, which angered European Union peers by announcing a daily cap on immigration and asylum claims, said on Friday it was happy with the decision and would have to introduce even stricter limits in future. The daily limits, of 3,200 migrants crossing the border and 80 asylum...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces and Russian warplanes have renewed the aerial and ground attacks on the Turkmen-dominated village of Harbanfaseh town in Hama province, residents said Friday. Russia warplanes conducted at least 20 raids on rebel-held areas in Homs and Hama in the past 24...

Saudi Arabia's state-run news agency says kingdom is halting $3 billion arms deal with Lebanon over the Mediterranean country's recent diplomatic positions — a veiled reference to the kingdom's spat with Iran. Riyadh says it would also halt a $1 billion deal to equip Lebanese police. The...