Bomb blast in a bus kills three civilians in Syria’s Afrin

A bomb in the northwest Syrian town of Afrin killed three civilians and wounded nine on a public bus, Reuters witnesses said on Sunday. The blast came ...

Car bomb kills eight people in Syria’s Afrin, says monitor

A car bomb killed at least eight people including four civilians near a pro-Turkey rebel post in the northern Syrian city of Afrin on Sunday, a ...

Turkish soldier killed in Syria’s Afrin: ministry

A Turkish soldier was killed on Thursday in the northern Syrian region of Afrin after coming under fire from a Kurdish militia, the Turkish defense ...

Turkey opens gate with neighboring Syria’s Afrin

A border gate between Turkey and Syria’s Afrin opened on Thursday, Turkish Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan said on Friday.The border crossing is ...

Turkish forces bombard Kurdish YPG militia positions east of Euphrates

Turkish forces bombarded Kurdish YPG militia positions on the eastern shore of the Euphrates River in northern Syria, state-owned Anadolu news agency ...

Turkey ready to create more safe zones in Syria

Turkey said on Sunday it had finalized preparations to create more safe areas in Syria, which would allow the return of refugees who have fled the ...

Amnesty accuses Turkey of tolerating Syrian rebel abuses in Afrin

Amnesty International on Thursday accused Turkish forces of allowing Syrian armed groups to commit major rights abuses in the northern region of Afrin ...

Hundreds of Syria Kurds rally to demand Turkey withdrawal

Hundreds demonstrated in Syria’s northeastern city of Qamishli on Saturday, in response to a call by Kurdish authorities for global protests ...

The regional powder keg and the threat of conflagration

There are varying assessments on the factors that might trigger a large scale conflagration in the Middle East. There are those who believe that this ...

Aid reaches Syrians displaced by Turkey’s Afrin assault

Humanitarian aid on Tuesday reached desperate families displaced to the northern Syrian town of Tal Rifaat by a nearby Turkish offensive, the ...

Turkish forces will not remain in Syria’s Afrin

Turkish forces will not remain in Syria’s Afrin and will leave the region to its "real owners", Ankara’s main spokesman said on ...

Turkish forces and Free Syrian Army capture Afrin city

Erdogan says Afrin is now under ‘total’ Turkish control

Turkey's President Erdogan said on Sunday that allied Syrian forces have taken control of town center of Afrin, driving out  theKurdish militia. ...

Nine dead in Turkish air strike on hospital in Syria’s Afrin

A Turkish bombing raid struck the main hospital in the Kurdish-controlled Syrian town of Afrin on Friday killing nine people, a monitor said, as ...

Pregnant women among dead as Turkish strike hits hospital in Syria’s Afrin

A Turkish bombing raid struck the main hospital in the Kurdish-controlled Syrian town of Afrin on Friday, killing sixteen civilians, a monitor said. ...

Turkey ramps up assault on Kurdish enclave in Syria

Turkey turned up the heat on Syria’s Afrin on Wednesday, as pro-Ankara forces bombarded the Kurdish enclave and closed in on its main city. The ...

‘Tremendous battles’ still loom in Syria, says UN adviser Egeland

Syria could see “tremendous battles” for two remaining rebel enclaves even once a government onslaught on the last insurgent pocket near ...

The Kurds have been sacrificed

Three years ago, the Kurds seized Kobane (Ain Al-Arab) from the jihadists. The whole world hailed this symbolic victory, underlining the heroism of ...

Syria’s Afrin cut off from water as civilians ‘exit through special corridor’

Turkish bombing raids killed 10 fighters loyal to the Syrian government on Wednesday at a checkpoint they were manning near the Kurdish enclave of ...

Erdogan hopes Afrin will be ‘totally encircled’ by evening

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hopes Turkish forces will have completely encircled Afrin by Wednesday evening, a presidential source said, clarifying ...

Turkey’s Erdogan says Syria’s Afrin town under siege, entry imminent

Turkey’s military and its rebel allies have besieged the northern Syrian town of Afrin and were nearing its town centre, President Tayyip ...

Syria aid convoy on hold after Assad forces split the enclave in two

A top UN aid official appealed to the Syrian government and its Russian backers for a cessation of hostilities in eastern Ghouta on Thursday when a ...

Cold War-like conflicts in the region and the Arab dilemma

The Russian veto of the draft resolution condemning Iranian interference in Yemen brings to mind the Cold War era. It is clearly an incident ...

Eight Turkish soldiers killed in Syria, 13 wounded

Turkey suffered heavy losses on Thursday during its offensive against a Kurdish militia in northwest Syria, with the military announcing that eight ...

At least 17 dead as Turkish jets attack pro-government forces in Afrin

Turkish warplanes attacked pro-Syrian government forces overnight, killing at least 17 people in a village in the north of the Afrin region in ...

Aid convoy arrives in Syria’s Afrin

An aid convoy carrying humanitarian supplies for 50,000 displaced people has arrived in Afrin in Syria, a spokeswoman for the International Committee ...

Turkey says unclear whether Syrian government forces will enter Afrin

Syrian government forces have yet to enter the Afrin region and it was unclear if they would, Turkey’s foreign minister said on Tuesday. ...

Erdogan says Turkey will lay siege to Syria’s Afrin in coming days

Turkey will lay siege to Afrin in northern Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday a month after Ankara launched an offensive against ...

Turkey shells Syrian pro-regime forces in Afrin

Turkey fired at Syrian pro-regime forces as they entered Tuesday the Kurdish-controlled enclave of Afrin, Syrian state media said.The shelling marks a ...

Turkey welcomes Syrian forces entering Afrin

Militias allied to the Syrian government will enter the Afrin region, Syrian media reported on Monday, after a Kurdish official said a deal had been ...