Ankara and Moscow reached an agreement on Friday on the borders of the demilitarized zone to be set up in Syria’s Idlib region, announced the Turkish defense ministry. The agreement was reached during meetings with a Russian committee held between September 19-21 at the ministry. The agreed borders take into…

A deal struck in Sochi last Monday by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the opposition-held Syrian province of Idlib showed that the two main roads linking Aleppo to Latakia and Hama, which are considered the “main artery of the North,” would be reopened…

Iran was not a party to the agreement, which might signal to Washington, Israel and others that Iran’s role in Syria has been sidelined.

Vladimir Putin was forced to step in to defuse a row between Moscow and Tel Aviv yesterday after a Russian reconnaissance plane with 15 people on-board was mistakenly shot down by Syrian forces that were targeting Israeli jets.

Moscow is seeking to retrieve the highly-sensitive espionage devices that were on board the Russian jet that was accidentally downed on Monday by Syrian regime air defenses, sources told Russia’s Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper. A specialized Russian navy ship arrived off the Syrian coast to retrieve the devices from the Ilyushin…

Western governments bear partial responsibility for prolonging this savage conflict. They must now push for peace