More than 400 U.S. Marines and their artillery are leaving Syria after helping to capture the city of Raqqa from Islamic State, the U.S.-led coalition fighting the militant group said on Thursday. Last month, U.S.-backed militias declared victory in Raqqa, Islamic State’s former...

The United Nations Thursday appealed for 500 patients, many at risk of death, to be urgently evacuated from Syria's Eastern Ghouta region, one of the last rebel-held strongholds. Jan Egeland, advisor to the UN's special envoy for Syria, told a press conference in Geneva that there are...

Representatives of Syria’s warring sides sat just meters apart in separate rooms at U.N. peace talks on Thursday, but mediator Staffan de Mistura stopped short of bringing them together in what diplomats had hoped might be a minor breakthrough. Previous rounds of talks have gone...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's Kurdish National Council (KNC) on Thursday has handed over two letters to the U.N Envoy to Syria and to the head of the opposition demanding  a constitutional recognition of the rights of "the Kurdish people, senior Kurdish officials said. Abdul Karim...