Any withdrawal of US military forces and equipment from Syria by new US President Donald Trump would be a “nightmare” scenario and aid a resurgence of ISIS, the commander of a US-backed Syrian military group has said.

Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.

The leaders of two previously rival Kurdish groups have met in northern Iraq in an apparent step toward reconciliation at a time when the political upheaval in Syria has left Kurds in the region facing an uncertain future.

Turkish soldier deployment in Syria will continue, Defense Ministry sources said Thursday, as terrorist groups remain a threat to Türkiye's

Depending on need, redeployment of troops in Syria or their assignment to different regions may be considered, says ministry - Anadolu Ajansı

Inclusivity and moderation are indeed immediate priorities for Syria, but a big national vote is not. Democracy does not itself guarantee peace in a country so recently riven by autocratic rule

The new Syrian regime can only be trusted if it concedes meaningful decentralization to the country’s minority groups.

Her family had lost hope she would ever return after Islamic State fighters took her and thousands of other Yazidi women and girls as sex slaves from Iraq into Syria during their reign of terror.In August that year,

U.S., French and German envoys have warned Syria's new Islamist rulers that their appointment of foreign jihadists to senior military posts is a security concern and bad for their image as they try to forge ties with foreign states,

Iraq said on Friday that it has extended its concrete wall along the Syrian border amid political and security uncertainty in the neighboring country.

Donald Trump with Erdogan (left), and Gen Mazloum Abdi Battles are raging in the northeast region of Syria, between the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) supported by

PKK terrorists targeted in northern Iraq, while 6 others in northern Syria, says Turkish National Defense Ministry - Anadolu Ajansı