Syrian government negotiators at Geneva peace talks are coming under unaccustomed pressure to discuss something far outside their comfort zone: the fate of President Bashar al-Assad. And they are doing their best to avoid it. U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura describes Syria's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters launched a surprise attack on regime checkpoints in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor, targeting the government-held neighborhoods, local activists said. The attack started early on Sunday were both sides had exchanged mortar and artillery shelling in the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Patients of a charitable hospital in al Waer neighborhood of Homs city are facing slow death as regime froces prevent the entry of medic, fuel and cutting off power supply, activists said. Hassan al Asmar, local activist told Zaman al-Wasl that regime forces have banned...

The ceasefire in Syria is broadly holding but the United States should be doing more to support it, Russia's Defence Ministry said in a statement on Saturday. The ministry said Russian monitors had registered no violations of the ceasefire involving the use of heavy weapons within...