Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Saturday talked to his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov over the phone, according to a Turkish diplomatic source. The phone call came ahead of the Syrian National Dialogue Congress, which is set to be held on Jan. 29-30 in the Russian...

A total of 5,783 civilians were killed in Syria, mainly by the Russian forces, over the last two years, according to a report released by Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) on Saturday. The report said 1,596 children and 992 women were among those killed between Sept. 30, 2015...

UN’s Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura will attend a planned summit on the Syrian conflict in Russia’s coastal city of Sochi. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres was fully briefed by Mistura, and “has decided to accept the invitation of the Russian Federation to send a...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS has arrested tens of fighters and civilians who planned to flee the southern suburbs of Damascus to regime-held areas, sources told Zaman al-Wasl on Saturday. The extremist group launched an arrest campaign tracking members who want to flee al-Hajar al-Aswad...