The U.N. special envoy for Syria has vowed to take fragile peace talks into next week despite a walkout by the main armed opposition, a breakdown in a truce and signs that both sides are gearing up to escalate the five-year-old civil war. Staffan de Mistura, who dismissed the...

Reporting by Eqab Malek; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime's air force directorate has rewarded military pilots who conduct the deadly air strikes on Syrian people, source told Zaman al-Wasl Thursday. The rewards were disbursed by the M.General Jameel al-Hassan, head...

More than 21 pro-government militiamen have been killed in two days of battles with Syrian Kurdish forces in northeast Syria that has widened the Kurds' control over a city at the border with Turkey, a Syrian Kurdish official said. Five members of the Kurdish internal...

The largest aid convoy so far in Syria has reached a besieged rebel-held town in the centre of the country. Sixty-five lorries are delivering food and medicine to about 120,000 civilians in and around Rastan, in Homs province. The International Committee of the Red Cross and Syrian Red...