Syrian state television said government forces fought their way into Palmyra on Thursday as the army backed by Russian air cover sought to recapture the historic city from Islamic State (IS) insurgents. A monitoring group said the fighting was still outside the city, after a...

Syrian government and opposition parties at peace talks in Geneva are expected to agree on Thursday to a document drawn up by a U.N. special envoy outlining basic principles in what one diplomat described as a "baby step" forward. With a fragile ceasefire in place in Syria,...

(Zaman Al Wasl- AFP)- Turkey has detained a Japanese citizen in the south of the country on suspicion of seeking to cross the border into Syria to join ISIS, the Dogan news agency said Wednesday. The young man aged 24, named as M.M., was detained late Tuesday in the Nizip district of the...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday that peace talks on the Syria conflict taking place in Geneva were always set to be long and difficult, and that it was too early to talk about patience running out on any side of the negotiations. Peskov was replying to a Reuters...