Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

Ankara and Damascus are working on a plan for defense cooperation, according to a Turkish official, who added that Turkey's ...

Men of various ages and nationalities sit silently in their cells, a small window in the metal doors their only opening to ...

Then, in 2016, Erdogan instituted Operation Euphrates Shield, capturing an area in north Syria ... maps, for the old Kurdistan now falls within the sovereign space of four separate states: Turkey ...

This principle is exemplified by the importance of the Golan Heights and Mount Hermon. Israel cannot allow its enemies to ...

and the power configuration in Syria was different. Their interest was tied to the repatriation of refugees to areas controlled by Turkey, that Turkey invaded basically through three military ...

Representative of the Kurdish-led self-proclaimed autonomous administration in the north of Syria to th Iraqi Kurdistan ...

Many in the region are questioning the kind of settlement Turkey seeks in Syria with the Kurdish-dominated ... its current military deployment in areas like Raqqa, which are not Kurdish-majority.

An Apache helicopter patrolled the outskirts of the city of Hassakeh as a heavily loaded pickup truck, filled with displaced ...

Nine SNA fighters killed and 11 others injured in SDF attacks on Turkish bases in the villages of al-Hoshariya near Manbij ...

Syria’s Foreign Ministry couldn’t be reached for comment. At least one of the Russian ships, the Sparta II, designed to transport wheeled cargoes such as trucks, left the Tartus port area on ...

Six years ago, at the time of the first Trump administration’s Muslim ban and its initial round of vicious anti-immigrant policies, I visited a refugee ...