Russia and the United States have agreed to push for direct talks between the Syrian regime and the opposition in Geneva, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday. "As the immediate task we have agreed to push for the soonest start of direct talks between the government delegations...

  Syrian government forces fought their way into Palmyra on Thursday as the army backed by Russia n air cover sought to recapture the historic city from Islamic State (IS) insurgents, Syrian state TV and a monitoring group said. The Syria n army earlier this month launched a...

Secretary of State John Kerry, ahead of a meeting with Vladimir Putin, said the United States and Russia must work together to end the war in Syria despite their differences, and called for a further reduction in violence and more aid deliveries. Russia and the United States...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed rebels and Kurdish factions are pressing hard to take the Syrian-Iraqi border from the Islamic State, as regime army backed by a Russian cover makes advances in Palmyra, the capital of Syrian desert, activists said. The radical group has been trapped in the Syrian...