Syrian opposition forces on Sunday repelled an attack by the YPG -- the armed wing of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party, the terrorist PKK group’s Syrian affiliate -- in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city. YPG units attacked parts of western Aleppo at dawn following fierce Russian aerial...

Mohamed Qassim, who formerly served as attorney-general in Syria’s central city of Tadmur, spoke to Anadolu Agency on Saturday about collusion -- which he says he witnessed first-hand -- between the Assad regime and its ally Russia and the Islamic State militant group. Qassim, who now supports...

Qatar became the latest Gulf state to signal its willingness to intervene in Syria with ground troops. Speaking at a security conference in Munich, Foreign Minister Sheik Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said Qatar indicated last year it was willing to send soldiers to fight Daesh. “In...

(The Guardian)- Vladimir Putin could end Syria’s civil war with one phonecall, Britain’s foreign secretary has said. Calling on the Russians to end airstrikes on moderate Syrian opposition fighters, Philip Hammond said: “There is one man on this planet who can end the civil war in Syria by...

Sunni politician Saad al-Hariri said on Sunday Lebanon would never be an "Iranian province" hostile to Saudi Arabia, and attacked Shi'ite Hezbollah's role in the Syrian war in a speech reflecting regional tensions. The former prime minister was speaking in Beirut on the 11th...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Dominant Islam Army rebel group, in statement issued Sunday, said its had killed 16 Islamic State fighters in an ambush in the Eastern Qalamoun region near Iraqi borders. Islam Army's special forces units have ambushed ISIS fighters between al-Dhaba'a and Bir al-Manqoura...

A convoy carrying medical aid on Saturday entered the besieged rebel-controlled Douma area, a flashpoint near the Syrian capital, the Red Crescent said. The aid consists of medicines and also milk for children, said Syrian Red Crescent director of operations Hazem Bakla, quoted by state news...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's air strikes killed at least 10 people and wounded dozens in attacks on rebel-held Aleppo city, activists said on Sunday. The aerial bombing has targeted the neighborhood of Katerji in the regime-encircled city of Aleppo, medics said. Russia has killed at least 550...

(Agencies)- The Syrian Kurdish PYD party on Sunday rejected Turkish demands that allied militia withdraw from positions near the border that are being shelled by Turkish army, and warned that Syrians would resist any Turkish intervention in the country. The news comes after close sources to...

Israel voiced doubt on Sunday that an international ceasefire plan for Syria would work, with one senior official suggesting a sectarian partition of the country might be preferable. While formally neutral on the five-year civil war wracking its neighbor, Israel has some sway among the world...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's warplanes have carried out at least 600 air strikes on Turkmen-dominated villages in the southern countryside of central Hama province in one month that have displaced 10,000 people, rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday.  The villages of Harbanfaseh,...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama agreed to intensify diplomatic and other cooperation to implement an agreement on Syria struck at talks in Munich, the Kremlin said in a statement following phone talks between the two leaders on Feb. 14. The Kremlin also said...

A 13-year-old Iraqi girl’s home burned after she criticized the governor of a central Iraq province in a televised interview, her father and police said on Saturday. Rawan Salem Hussein challenged Governor Sadiq Madlool al-Sultani to an on-air debate on his contributions to “the cultural...

NATO ships have begun their mission to combat human traffickers in the Aegean, the alliance’s senior commander said Saturday. Gen. Philip Breedlove said the ships arrived on Friday night. “So in a matter of less than two days a political decision was made, a military response was put together...

Police are investigating a killing at an asylum center in Sweden after a fight broke out among residents. It is the second such incident in a month after a 22-year- old employee at a refugee center for unaccompanied minors was stabbed to death, prompting concerns that authorities...

An ambush by Syrian rebels on pro-regime forces near Damascus this week killed 76 fighters, a monitor said Saturday, in one of the deadliest attacks of its kind since the conflict began. Fighters from the powerful Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam) rebel group opened fire last Sunday on around 240...

Translation by Yusra Ahemd (Hasaka)- Hundreds of displaced people fleeing ISIS-controlled areas in Syria and Iraq were forced to stay in the refugee camp of Mabroka town in Hasaka countryside, till they find who sponsor them for the Kurdish Self Management to be allowed in areas controlled by...

Turkey’s military shelled Kurdish militia targets in northern Syria on Saturday and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu demanded that the group withdraw from the area in a move that further complicated the conflict across the NATO member's border. The shelling took place after Kurdish YPG fighters...

(The Independent)- Saudi Arabia is sending troops and fighter jets to Turkey's Incirlik military base ahead of a possible ground invasion of Syria. The Turkish foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, confirmed the deployment in a statement to the Yeni Şafak newspaper on Saturday, days before a...

Five Egyptian soldiers were killed Saturday when their armored vehicle struck a roadside bomb in the northern Sinai Peninsula, a security source has told Anadolu Agency. According to the source, the incident occurred south of the North Sinai city of Sheikh Zuweid. Since Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's...