Turkey's Foreign Ministry says it has summoned the Russian ambassador after a Russian jet violated Turkey's airspace on Friday, despite several warnings. A Foreign Ministry statement on Saturday said the plane was warned in Russian and in English before entering Turkey's airspace. The...

A delegation from Syria's main opposition group flew to Geneva on Saturday to assess whether to join Damascus government officials in United Nations-brokered peace talks, an opposition representative said. The 17-strong team included the head of the Saudi-backed Higher Negotiation Committee...

A Syrian insurgent group said on Friday it had merged with a number of other rebel groups around Aleppo province to become a stronger fighting force in the country's five-year-old civil war. The group Failaq al-Sham, or Sham Legion, said on its Twitter feed it had merged with eight other...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian opposition will join peace talks that have opened in Geneva Friday after assurances from U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, and the United Nations that demands to release the detainees and to stop the bombing will be addressed in the preliminary negotiations,...