United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed "great shock" on Tuesday over reports of a massacre in the Syrian village of Maan. A statement released by Ban's spokesman Martin Nesirky said the UN leader was disturbed by reports of killings in Maan on February 9. "Dozens of...

 The Assad regime has circulated news about the imminent victory on what it calls “terrorists” before the end of Geneva II talks i n regime-held areas of Aleppo, .  Many people in Aleppo told Zaman Alwasl that they heard soldiers on barriers talking about this...

  Syrian authorities have detained 336 men who left Homs and are still questioning most of them without direct supervision by any neutral third party, the  United Nations  said on Tuesday. The men, deemed to be of fighting age by the Syrian authorities, were among...

Peace talks between the Syrian government and opposition are not making much progress, international mediator Lakhdar Brahimi said on Tuesday after a face-to-face meeting of the warring parties in Geneva. As negotiations intended to end Syria's three-year-old war concluded the...