The Syrian opposition claims the government delegation to the Geneva peace talks is coming up with new conditions, making it difficult to move forward. Opposition spokesman Yahya Aridi said Tuesday that the Damascus delegation told U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura they won't negotiate...

Teachers in the Kurdish-held part of eastern Deir Ezzor province have refused to replace the UNICEF curricula with a Kurdish educational program in the elementary schools, activists said Sunday. The curriculum is promoting the Kurdish militant movement and personalities in a region that...

At least 10 pro-Iran militants were killed Sunday in a Daesh (ISIS) attack in the eastern countryside of Homs province, local news site said.  Daesh jihadists have stormed Iran-run bastions near the town of al-Sukhna, leaving dozens more wounded.  Most of the slain...

A U.N. Security Council resolution that leaves only one of two border crossings open for aid deliveries from Turkey into rebel-held northwestern Syria will cost lives and intensify the suffering of 1.3 million people living there, aid agencies said. Western states had pressed for aid access...