The next round of talks aimed at easing the violence in war-torn Syria will be held at the U.N.'s European headquarters in Geneva early next year, a U.N. spokesman said Tuesday. "The talks will take place in Geneva, but we don't have the exact date," U.N. spokesman Rheal LeBlanc told AFP....

ISIS militants shelled a school district in eastern Syria Tuesday, killing at least nine students and wounding around 20 other people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. Syrian state media said nine girls had been killed and said "shells fired by terrorists" had hit...

The United Nations is mulling "light touch" options for monitoring a possible ceasefire in Syria that would keep its risks to a minimum by relying largely on Syrians already on the ground, diplomatic sources said. The U.N. Security Council on Friday unanimously called on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels have killed Monday one the Syrian regime's notorious officers in the Eastern Ghouta district who was a key mastermind of the well-known al-Otaiba ambush which took place on February 26, 2014 northeast Damascus and left about 175 rebel fighters dead. Activists...