The U.N. is intentionally providing only barebones aid in the former Daesh (ISIS) stronghold of Raqqa in Syria to avoid attracting more civilians to the still highly dangerous city, an official said Tuesday. "We don't want to start too vigorous programmes... because we don't want to...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday the United States had no intention to leave Syria despite Washington saying it had such plans, the RIA state news agency said. Lavrov told reporters in Beijing he hoped it would become clearer how to cooperate on settling the Syrian...

Syrian security services chief Ali Mamluk has refused to appear before a military tribunal in Lebanon to face terror-related charges, a court source told AFP Monday. Mamluk, a member of President Bashar Assad's inner circle, was accused in 2013 by Lebanon's government of "attempting to...

 More than a dozen Syrian regime forces have been killed fighting Daesh (ISIS) in a devastated southern district of the capital Damascus, a monitoring group said Monday. Forces loyal to Bashar Assad ramped up their ground operations and bombing raids against the Palestinian...