Syria peace talks due to start in Switzerland on Friday "cannot fail," the chief UN mediator in the conflict said in a video message to the Syrian people Thursday. "You have seen enough conferences, two of them already taken place," Staffan de Mistura said on the eve of the intra-Syrian...

Russia said Thursday it wanted to hold an international meeting on Syria -- including key players from the West and the Middle East -- in Munich next month. "There is an agreement in principle between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Secretary of State John Kerry, and now we will...

The Syrian government in 2015 ignored most United Nations requests to deliver humanitarian aid to some of the 4.6 million people in hard-to-reach and besieged areas and only 620,000 received help, the U.N. aid chief said on Wednesday. Stephen O'Brien told the U.N. Security...

Syria's opposition adjourned a meeting in Riyadh on Wednesday without deciding whether to attend peace talks in Geneva planned for Friday, saying it was waiting for a U.N. response to its demands. The High Negotiations Committee, which represents a range of Syrian political and...