SADAT organized the Syrian Arab mercenaries that did most of the fighting for Turkey in Syria, Libya, and the Caucasus backing Azerbaijan against Armenia. In 2014 President Putin of Russia asked ...

Thousands of government forces converged on the coast Sectarian bitterness from years of civil war fed anger Government units, foreign fighters and rebel militias were all involved LATAKIA, Syria, ...

Among those elevated was the head of Jaysh al-Islam, and Sultan Suleiman Shah’s leader, al-Jassim, who rose to the rank of brigadier general with command of a formal Syrian army unit. The leader of ...

As Turkish-linked commanders with dubious human rights records are commissioned as officers and appointed to top military ...

After decades of dictatorship and 13 years of civil war, can Syria put itself back together? Our journalists traveled the ...

Syria's Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani condemned on Wednesday Israeli strikes in retaliation for overnight rocket fire, saying they were aimed at destabilising his country.Israel bombed southern ...

DAMASCUS/AMMAN (Reuters) -The United States has given its blessing to a plan by Syria’s new leadership to incorporate thousands of foreign jihadist former rebel fighters into the national army ...

Syrian officials said that under the plan, some 3,500 foreign fighters, mainly Uyghurs from China and neighboring countries, would join a newly formed unit.

Exclusive-Turkey Backing Syria's Military and Has No Immediate Withdrawal Plans, Defence Minister Says By Tuvan Gumrukcu ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey is training and advising Syria's armed forces and ...

DAMASCUS/AMMAN (Reuters) -The United States has given its blessing to a plan by Syria's new leadership to incorporate thousands of foreign jihadist former rebel fighters into the national army ...

The US appears to have backed a plan by the Syrian government to assimilate thousands of foreign rebel fighters into the Syrian national army, Reuters reported on Monday.. An estimated 3,500 ...

Asked by Reuters in Damascus whether Washington approved the integration of foreign fighters into Syria's new military, Thomas Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey who was named Trump's special ...