Key powerbrokers were scrambling Friday over plans to speed up a political settlement in Syria, with UN envoy Staffan de Mistura joining a second day of talks after negotiations in Moscow. A new round of peace talks backed by Russia, Iran and Turkey began in the Kazakh capital Astana on...

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....