A Syrian congress of national dialogue will be held in the Russian city of Sochi on Jan. 29-30, the RIA news agency cited Kazakhstan's foreign ministry as saying on Friday.

A Syrian congress of national dialogue will be held in the Russian city of Sochi on Jan. 29-30, the RIA news agency cited Kazakhstan's foreign ministry as saying on Friday.
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Kurdish militias have dug trenches and mobilized more troops in the towns of al-Malikiya town and Ras al Ayn at the Turkish border, days after the Turkish president slammed a U.S.-backed militant group, vowing to clear his country's border with Syria of "terrorists."...
U.N. special envoy on Syria Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday he planned to organize a next round of Syrian peace talks in Geneva in the second half of January. De Mistura was speaking in Moscow at a news conference after holding talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov....