By Mehmet Ersoy Ankara, The Operation Olive Branch in northern Syria started last week. In recent days the Afrin region became a possible hotbed of a full-scale conflict between the Turkish troops aided by the…

Washington, The US has urged Turkey to exercise restraint in its ongoing military operation in northern Syria as Turkish ground forces pressed ahead against the Syrian Kurdish group YPG in the enclave of Afrin. Washington considers the YPG…

Ankara, A Reuters cameraman filmed Turkish artillery at the border village of Sugedigi firing shells on Friday morning into the Afrin region in northwest Syria. “The operation has actually started de facto with cross-border shelling,…

Doha, Authorities in Qatar have denied that Qatari fighter jets intercepted two Emirati aircraft after the United Arab Emirates said that its civilian jets were accompanied by warplanes. Qatar’s foreign ministry released a statement on…

Gaza, The leader of the Hamas on Tuesday claimed the United States is formulating a peace plan that would offer the Palestinians a suburb of Jerusalem in the West Bank as the capital of their…

Damascus, Syrian rebel groups on Monday rejected Russia’s planned Sochi conference on Syria, saying Moscow was seeking to bypass a United Nations-based Geneva peace process and blaming Russia for committing war crimes in the country….

Qamishli, Syria’s Kurds fear the steadfast ally they found in the US to successfully take on Islamic State group jihadists may now leave them to face threats from Turkey and Damascus alone. Across Syria’s north,…

Geneva, A political solution to Syria’s conflict may require “new ideas” to move peace talks forward, the UN’s top mediator said. For seven years the conflict has shown no sign of ending despite several attempts…