By Ali Bilgic In a move likely to further destabilise the situation in Syria and the Middle East, Donald Trump appeared to give Turkey the green light on October 6 for a military operation into northern Syria.

What Donald Trump’s decision to abandon Kurdish fighters in Syria means for the Kurds, Assad and Russia

Rights group Amnesty International Friday called for justice for those killed during months of protests that rocked Sudan, insisting that demonstrators had faced "disproportionate and unnecessary" violence.

Amnesty wants justice for victims of Sudan protests

Jihadists and allied rebels withdrew from a key area of northwestern Syria Tuesday as President Bashar al-Assad's forces pressed an offensive against the jihadist-run Idlib region, a war monitor said.

Anti-Assad fighters withdraw from key area of northwest Syria

A probe into a deadly June raid on a Khartoum protest camp revealed Saturday that a feared Sudanese paramilitary group was involved in the crackdown that killed scores and sparked international outrage.

Sudan probe shows paramilitaries involved in deadly raid on sit-in

Sudan's military said on Wednesday that it has thwarted a coup attempt and arrested an unspecified number of senior officers in connection with the plot, state news agency SUNA said.

Stopped coup attempt, arrested senior officers: Sudan military

Sudan`s military and opposition groups have agreed to resume talks on the formation of a transitional council, an Ethiopian envoy said on Tuesday, as an opposition alliance said it was suspending its campaign of civil disobedience and strikes.

Envoy says Sudan talks to resume as strike suspended

A key protest group on Saturday announced a nationwide "civil disobedience" campaign in Sudan. The campaign would run until Sudan's ruling generals transfer power to a civilian government, the protest group said.

Sudan protest group calls nationwide 'civil disobedience'

The United Nations is moving some of its staff from Sudan, a spokeswoman said Wednesday, as the death toll from a crackdown on protesters soared to more than 100.

UN relocates staff from Sudan, death toll rises to 108

Bashar al-Assad has won his war for political survival but as Syria's conflict enters its ninth year, his country is fractured, cash-strapped, and pray to both friend and foe.

Eight years on, Assad clings on but beleaguered

The wife of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has undergone a "successful" operation as part of treatment for early-stage breast cancer, the presidency said on Sunday.

Syria's first lady undergoes operation over cancer: Presidency

'Normalisation (of relations) with the Syrian regime at this stage is the normalisation of a person involved in war crimes, and this should not be acceptable,' said Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani.

Qatar rejects normalising ties with 'criminal' Syrian President Assad

Two developments, the pending return of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to the Arab fold and protests in Sudan, Jordan and Tunisia, send contradictory messages of where the Middle East and North Africa are headed.

Efforts to return Syria’s Bashar al-Assad to Arab fold amount to hollow victory for autocrats

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday said that a Russia-Turkey deal for the last major rebel bastion of Idlib was a "temporary measure", state news agency SANA reported.

Syria's Assad says Idlib deal 'temporary measure': Report

'If the Syrian regime uses this poison gas again, the United States is locked and loaded,' the US Ambassador to the UN said

If Syria uses toxic gas again, America is 'locked and loaded': US envoy to UN Nikki Haley

Prime Minister Theresa May said Britain had no alternative but to take military action to degrade Syria's chemical weapons capability

Strikes on Syria 'highly successful', says Britain; France says more possible if red line crossed

Live footage broadcast by Syrian state TV from the outskirts of the town of Mesraba showed enormous clouds of smoke rising into the sky. The sounds of explosions and jets could be heard

Damascus intensifies Ghouta assault to try and cut rebel enclave in half

Carla Del Ponte, a member of the UN commission, said she was resigning from the UN Commission because it 'does absolutely nothing'

Enough evidence to convict Syria's Assad of war crimes: UN Commission

The United States, Russia and Jordan have brokered a crucial ceasefire deal in southwest Syria that goes into effect on Sunday

US, Russia and Jordan reach ceasefire deal for southwest Syria

The Syrian Democratic Forces took Qadisia, located in the west of Raqqa, after three days of intense fighting

US-backed Syrian groups take Raqqa district from Islamic State

Host countries need to see documentation before granting people asylum, but Assad doesn't just hand out documentation to Syrian refugees

Insight: Syrian refugees must buy travel papers - from Assad

An official said two fighters were also wounded in the attack, but said it was unclear whether an air strike or shelling caused the damage

Israeli attack on Syria military camp kills three

The G7 foreign ministers met in Italy as US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson readies for crunch talks in Moscow

G7 agrees no Syria solution with Assad in power: Italy

Both opposition and state media reported that a deal has been negotiated to let the rebels leave with their families over the next few weeks

Syrian rebels agree to leave Homs' al-Waer district

Trump has questioned the idea of?backing the rebels instead of Assad, noting that, while he didn't like him, 'Assad is killing ISIS'

Syrian President hopes for 'natural ally' in Trump

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