Politics of Syria
War of Words As Peace Talks Open In Astana
The Syrian government's lead negotiator has denounced what he called his rebel counterpart's "provocative" comments at...
Expectations Low As Syria’s Warring Sides Meet
Syria's warring sides met for talks in Kazakhstan's capital on Monday, flanked by intermediary nations seeking to...
Turkish Gov’t-Funded Madrassa Teacher Recorded Praising ISIL In Classroom
An obtrusive recording revealed that a teacher working at a Turkish gov’t-funded religious school in Albania...
U.S. Envoy To Kazakhstan To Attend Syria Talks As An Observer
The U. S. State Department said on Saturday it will not send a delegation from Washington to attend Syrian peace talks...
Trump Takes Over Islamic State Fight, Vowing To Finish It
As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, the Islamic State is on the defensive in three countries and...
NATO Crisis
Turkish President Recep Erdogan alleged, giving the Obama administration a ‘new-year-surprise’, December 28 that...
Deaths As Car Bomb Hits Jableh Town
At least nine people are reported killed and 25 others wounded in a car bomb attack on Syrian government-held coastal...
German-Ghanaian Who Denounced ISIS Faces War Crimes Charges
A German-Ghanaian Islamic State defector who claimed in news interviews to have refused to commit violence for the...
German-Ghanaian Who Denounced ISIS Faces War Crimes Charges
A German-Ghanaian Islamic State defector who claimed in news interviews to have refused to commit violence for the...
German-Ghanaian Who Denounced ISIS Faces War Crimes Charges
A German-Ghanaian Islamic State defector who claimed in news interviews to have refused to commit violence for the...
German-Ghanaian ISIS Member Charged In Murders
German prosecutors have added six counts of murder and war crimes to the charges against an imprisoned Islamic State...
Two Guilty Over Terror Funding
Two UK men have been convicted of using Syria aid convoys to funnel cash to extremists in the war zone. The Muslim...
UN To Create Team That Will Probe Syria War Crimes
The United Nations General Assembly has voted to establish a special team to "collect, consolidate, preserve and...
Turkish Troops Killed In Clashes With ISIL In Syria
Clashes between Turkish-backed Syrian rebels and ISIL fighters have intensified around the northern Syrian town of...
On The Assassination Of Russian Ambassador In Turkey
The relations between unpredictable allies, Russia and Turkey, appear to have deteriorated in the past few years. The...
France, Fearing Massacres, Asks UN To Monitor Aleppo Evacuation
France has presented a UN Security Council draft resolution on sending observers to Aleppo to monitor evacuations and...
Aleppo Evacuations Suspended
The evacuation of thousands of refugees from the besieged city of Aleppo has stopped and the status of the operation...
Syria Suspends Aleppo Evacuations, Blaming Rebels
The Syrian government has suspended the evacuation of civilians and fighters from eastern Aleppo, accusing rebels of...
Chaos, Desperation At First U.N. Aid Distribution Inside Mosul
Iraqi police fired shots in the air and threatened to whip crowds with a hose as residents tried to overrun the first...