Agreement with US-backed group puts all border crossings with Iraq and Turkey, airports and oil fields in northeast Syria ...

In Syria, there's been a major development as U.S.-backed Kurdish forces who have controlled part of the country for more than a decade have agreed to be incorporated into the Syrian state.

(SOUNDBITE OF PEN SCRATCHING) ARRAF: The commander of the Kurdish-led forces and the interim Syrian president - the Syrian flag behind them ... The United States had a big role in this.

Updates and the latest news as the Senate votes to avoid a government shutdown and Mehmet Oz faces his Senate confirmation ...

"The American role was a positive role and in the interest of Syria and the Syrians," an SDF political wing adviser told ...

I fear that a period of darkness is descending on our entire neighborhood as the world looks on,” one senior East African ...

EVERY time Brit Sam Newey went on a mission with his Ukrainian comrades to fight Russian oppression, he would call his mum to ...

Residents of Al-Qamishli wave the flags of Kurdish militias like the PKK and ... "Israel wants Syria to be a divided state to remain the big sister of a minority state." U.S. soldiers patrol ...