Idlib

Beirut (AFP) - Turkish shelling Monday killed nine regime fighters in northwest Syria, where Ankara-backed rebels are fighting off advancing regime forces, a monitor said.Syrian regime forces have since December clawed back parts of the last major opposition bastion of Idlib in violence that has displaced almost a million people.Fighting…

Nearly a decade into a conflict defined by mass carnage and war crimes, Syria is suffering through what may be the worst humanitarian crisis in its blood-soaked civil war. For months, the Syrian military, backed by Russian air strikes, has been trying to wrest control of the northern territory of…

By Khalil Ashawi and Orhan CoskunAZAZ, Syria/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish forces and Syrian rebels fought government troops in northwest Syria on Thursday and Russian warplanes struck back in a sharp escalation of an intense battle over the last rebel bastions, Russian and Turkish officials said.The Turkish Defense Ministry said two…

Washington (AFP) - President Donald Trump has called for Russia to end its support for the Syrian regime's "atrocities" as he expressed US concern over violence in the Idlib region, the White House said Sunday. In a call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip E…

Maaret al-Naasane (Syria) (AFP) - Syrian regime forces made new gains Sunday in their offensive against the last major rebel bastion in the northwest, seizing villages and towns around second city Aleppo, state media and a monitor said.Backed by Russian air strikes, government forces have kept up the assault on…

(Bloomberg) -- The Turkish government still sees a chance that diplomacy might rein in attacks by the Syrian regime on Idlib and stem a potentially large flow of refugees from the rebel-held province. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Saturday that a…

AMMAN/GENEVA (Reuters) - Families fleeing air strikes and advancing troops in Syria’s Idlib province are sleeping rough in streets and olive groves, and burning toxic bundles of rubbish to stay warm in the biting winter weather, aid workers say. Hundreds of…

By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Wednesday accused Turkey of flouting agreements it had made with Moscow on Syria and of aggravating the situation in Idlib where Syrian forces have made gains in their campaign to eliminate the last insurgent bas…

BEIRUT/ANKARA (Reuters) - Government forces seized control of a highway in northwest Syria for the first time since 2012 on Tuesday as they pressed their campaign to eradicate the last rebel strongholds in Idlib province and the Aleppo countryside, a war moni…

Syrian government forces have killed five Turkish soldiers in an attack in northwestern Syria - the first significant clash between the two sides. Turkey's military says it has killed more than 100 Syrian government soldiers in Idlib province in retaliation …