Turkey, Russia talk tensions in Syria as migrants push west
REYHANLI, Turkey (AP) — The presidents of Turkey and Russia spoke by phone Friday to try to defuse tensions that rose si...
29 Turkish soldiers killed in northeast Syria air strike
BEIRUT (AP) — An air strike by Syrian government forces killed 29 Turkish soldiers in northeast Syria, a Turkish officia...
Israel strikes Gaza, Syria after Palestinian rockets attacks
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israel military said early Monday that it struck Palestinian militants targets in Gaza and Syria in...
Syrian war pulls in major foreign actors, increasing tension
BEIRUT (AP) — In northern Syria, heavy exchanges between Syrian and Turkish troops are erupting with more frequency, thr...
Turkish soldiers killed in Syria amid threats of escalation
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Two Turkish soldiers were killed Thursday in an airstrike in northwestern Syria, Turkey said, afte...
After gains in northern Syria, Assad predicts total victory
DAMASCUS, Syria — Syrian President Bashar Assad congratulated his forces Monday for recent gains in northwestern Syria that led to his troops consolid...
Freezing weather compounds crisis for displaced in Syria
BEIRUT — A military offensive on an opposition-controlled region of northwestern Syria has created one of the worst catastrophes for civilians in the ...
AP Explains: Why Syria’s M5 is Assad’s highway to victory
BEIRUT — It is arguably one of the most coveted prizes in Syria’s civil war, and after eight years of fighting, Syrian President Bashar Assad has got ...
Turkey at risk of more confrontations with Syria and Russia
ANKARA, Turkey — Direct clashes between Turkish and Syrian troops amid a Syrian government offensive in the last rebel stronghold of Idlib province ar...
Rebels shoot down Syrian helicopter as fighting intensifies
BEIRUT — Rebels shot down a Syrian military helicopter in northern Syria on Tuesday, killing its crew members in a fiery crash, while the government k...
Turkey says it has retaliated after deadly Syrian shelling
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey said it retaliated Monday after "intense" shelling by Syrian forces killed five of its soldiers and wounded five others in Syr...
Syrian advance sends hundreds of thousands fleeing in Idlib
BEIRUT — Turkey on Friday sent more troops and tanks to bolster its military presence in northwestern Syria, where President Bashar Assad's forces hav...
Syrian army enters key town as Turkey beefs up its troops
BEIRUT — Syrian government troops entered a strategic town in the country's last rebel stronghold Thursday after fierce clashes with opposition fighte...
At the Oscars, ‘The Cave’ aims to provide hope to Syria
NEW YORK — Home is a complicated notion for Feras Fayyad, the director of the Oscar-nominated Syrian documentary “The Cave.” His family home in Syria ...
Turkey deploys extremists to Libya, local militias say
CAIRO — Syrian militants affiliated with groups such as al-Qaida and the Islamic State group are currently being sent by Turkey to fight on behalf of ...
8 Turkish personnel, 13 Syrian troops killed in north Syria
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey hit targets in northern Syria, responding to shelling by Syrian government forces that killed at least eight Turkish soldiers ...
General: US committed to Syria fight; Missions up against IS
GREEN VILLAGE MILITARY OUTPOST — U.S. troops at military outposts ín eastern Syria asked variations of the same question to their top commander Saturd...
‘Sesame Street’ comforts children displaced by Syrian war
NEW YORK — “Sesame Street” in the past year has tackled everything from foster care to substance abuse. Now its latest effort is trying to help childr...
UN report lays out agonies faced by Syrian children amid war
GENEVA — In Syria's civil war, girls as young as nine have been raped and forced into sexual slavery. Boys have been tortured, forced into military tr...
Russia scores victory for ally Syria in UN vote cutting aid
UNITED NATIONS — Russia scored a victory for its close ally Syria on Friday, using its veto threat to force the U.N. Security Council to adopt a resol...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump minimizes IS risk, distorts Iran payout
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump wrongly dismissed the continuing threat of the Islamic State group and spread a false tale of the U.S. paying out ...
Russia’s Putin visits Syria to meet Assad, a key Iran ally
DAMASCUS, Syria — Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to Damascus on Tuesday for a meeting with President Bashar Assad, a rare visit that comes ...
Iranian general transformed Syria’s war in Assad’s favor
BEIRUT — When Syrian President Bashar Assad made a rare visit to Tehran last year, the powerful Revolutionary Guard commander Qassem Soleimani was the...
The Latest: Trump says US not looking to start war with Iran
BAGHDAD — The latest on the U.S. airstrike in Baghdad that killed Iran's top general (all times local):
Iran’s popular Gen. Soleimani became an icon by targeting US
TEHRAN, Iran — For Iranians whose icons since the Islamic Revolution have been stern-faced clergy, Gen. Qassem Soleimani was a popular figure of natio...
Iran can call on powerful friends if conflict engulfs region
JERUSALEM — If Iran decides to follow through on its vow of harsh retaliation for the killing of its top general, it can call upon heavily armed allie...
US kills Iran’s most powerful general in Baghdad airstrike
BAGHDAD — The United States killed Iran's top general and the architect of Tehran’s proxy wars in the Middle East in an airstrike at Baghdad's interna...
AP Explains: Who are Iraq’s Iran-backed militias?
Iran emerged as a major power broker in Iraq after the American invasion in 2003, supporting Shiite Islamist parties and militias that have dominated ...
US strikes hit Iraqi militia blamed in contractor’s death
WASHINGTON — The U.S. carried out military strikes in Iraq and Syria targeting an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia blamed for a rocket attack that killed ...