Middle Orient

Syrian rebels battled government troops in the coastal province of Latakia for the second straight day on Monday, making advances in one of President Bashar Assad’s strongholds, activists said.

Kurds in Syria should partake in the opposition group Syrian National Coalition (SNC), Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said. Davutoglu’s call comes a week after high-ranking officials from Turkey’s political and security circles met two visiting Kurdish politicians

Turkish Armed Forces opened return fire on the Syrian border on July 31, a statement posted on the Turkish Armed Forces website says. According to the report, the fire was opened in response to attacks from the Syrian side on the Turkish border.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held two phone conversations with his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault and German Chancellor Angela Merkel over the latest developments in Syria and Egypt.

UN inspectors will go to Syria to investigate three sites where chemical weapons attacks have been reported, the United Nations said Wednesday.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hosted a key meeting on the Syrian crisis on Tuesday with high-ranking Turkish officials at the prime ministry residence,

Syria’s state media said Monday that Syrian government troops regained full control of the strategic al-Khalidieh

Dozens of houses and offices in the border district of Ceylanpinar, province of Sanliurfa, have repeatedly been hit by shells and

A three-hour-long emergency meeting on recent developments on the Turkey-Syria border was held at Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s office today. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, Chief of General

Two senior UN inspectors tasked with investigating claims that chemical weapons have been used in Syria’s civil war were in Damascus on Wednesday for talks with government officials.