(Zaman al-Wasl) After the failure of the Kerry-Lavrov special agreement to stop the fighting in Syria, Russia Today channel and other Russian media outlets recently started speaking about the possibility of Moscow using a limited nuclear strike in a bid to explore the potential extent of its...

As Syrian regime forces advanced in Aleppo, backed by a deadly Russian air campaign, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) decried the "bloodbath," saying the battleground city's eastern rebel-held portion had become "a giant kill box". Syria's army was advancing on two Aleppo fronts, as talks...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, in a meeting last week with a small number of Syrian civilians and others, said he had lost an argument within the Obama administration to back up diplomatic efforts to end the bloodshed in Syria with the threat of using military force, the New York Times...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday announced he is setting up a board of inquiry to investigate the bombing of an aid convoy in Syria last week that killed 18 people. The internal UN panel "will ascertain the facts of the incident" on September 19 and report to Ban, who will "decide...