Syria

US mulls leaving some troops in Syria to guard oil

The Pentagon is considering keeping some U.S. troops near oilfields in northeastern Syria alongside Kurdish-led… Read More

US troops withdrawing from Syria expected to go to western Iraq: Pentagon

A senior US defense official clarified that the situation was still fluid and plans could… Read More

Syria’s heroic underground female medics hailed in ‘The Cave’

Oscar-nominated Syrian director Feras Fayyad has risked his life to chronicle the atrocities of the… Read More

Turkish President threw Trump’s ‘don’t be a fool letter’ in trash: sources

'President Erdogan received the letter, thoroughly rejected it and put it in the bin.' Read More

US preparing to withdraw all remaining troops from northern Syria: defence secretary

The withdrawal of the troops from the region comes after US President Trump abruptly shifted… Read More

Turkey launches Operation Peace Spring against Kurdish forces in Syria

Trump warned that if the Turkish operation was not conducted "in as humane a way… Read More

Turkish President Erdogan to meet US President Trump over Syria safe zone

Both leaders agreed during a phone call to meet in Washington next month Read More

Turkey says work on Syria “safe zone” not yielding results

Turkey does not think its efforts with the United States to form a “safe zone”… Read More

Erdogan says Turkish troops will enter planned Syria safe zone ‘soon’

Turkish ground troops will enter a planned safe zone in northern Syria “very soon,” President… Read More

Revolutionary Guards commander denies Iranian targets hit in Syria air strikes

A senior Revolutionary Guards commander denied on Sunday that Iranian targets had been hit in… Read More

Turkey says Syria safe zone center with U.S. fully operational: Anadolu

A joint Turkish-U.S. operation center to establish and manage a safe zone in northeast Syria… Read More

Erdogan tells Putin that Syrian offensive is causing humanitarian crisis

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Friday that Syrian army attacks in… Read More

Mobile cinema brings movie magic to Syrian children

In Kurdish-held areas of the northeast, filmmaker Shero Hinde is screening films in remote villages… Read More

U.S. State Department welcomes news of ceasefire in northwest Syria

The U.S. State Department on Saturday said it welcomed news of a ceasefire in Northwest… Read More

UK to facilitate release of Iranian tanker if it gets Syria guarantees: Hunt

LONDON: British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt told his Iranian counterpart on Saturday that Britain would… Read More

UN’s Michelle Bachelet says 55,000 linked to IS in Syria, Iraq should be tried or freed

"To inflict statelessness on children who have already suffered so much is an act of… Read More

Mental illness affects a fifth of people living in war zones

One in five people in war zones has depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, bipolar disorder or… Read More

Militants kill over 60 fighters of Assad forces across Syria

Regime fighters also came under attack on another front of Syria's grinding eight-year war, the… Read More

US-led coalition against IS admits to killing 1257 civilians since 2014

The international coalition said in a statement it had conducted 34,038 strikes between August 2014… Read More