A senior official in Syrian President Bashar Assad's ruling Baath party says the government will not make any new concessions in future peace talks. Hilal al-Hilal's comments come ahead of scheduled peace talks in Geneva in the coming days to work on ending Syria's nearly five-year conflict,...

 Syrian pro-government forces recaptured the rebel-held town of Rabiya in the western coastal province of Latakia Sunday, Reuters said. The advance, with the backing of Russian airstrikes and directed partly by Russian officers, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. It paved the...

At least 47 people, including nine children, have died in Russia air strikes on a town in eastern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday. The raids on Khasham near the city of Deir Ezzor on Saturday were among a series of strikes that also hit two other town and others...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday he was confident Syria peace talks would proceed, after he held talks with Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states in Saudi Arabia. "We are confident that with good initiative in the next day or so those talks can get going and...