Syria's regime has submitted an document entitled "Basic Elements for a Political Solution" to the U.N. mediator at peace talks in Geneva, the head of Syria's delegation, Bashar Jaafari, told reporters Monday after the opening session of the talks. Jaafari said he had had a positive and...

Aid groups were unable to deliver much-needed food packages to four besieged towns in war-torn Syria on Monday, the International Committee of the Red Cross told AFP, citing security problems. Since an unprecedented ceasefire came into force on February 27, aid deliveries have reached...

Syria's five-year-old conflict has created 2.4 million child refugees, killed many and led to the recruitment of children as fighters, some as young as seven, U.N. children's fund UNICEF said on Monday. Its report "No Place for Children" said more than 8 million children in Syria...

Russia is ready to coordinate its actions with the U.S.-led coalition in Syria to push the Islamic State group out of Raqqa, Interfax news agency quoted Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying. "We are ready to coordinate our actions with the Americans, because Raqqa...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Five Free Syrian Army units operating in northern Aleppo province have merged in one armed group to unified militay efforts on the ground, said in statement posted online  Saturday. Commanders of Division 99  said: “based on our...

The United States and France warned the Syrian regime on Sunday against trying to disrupt the fragile ceasefire as the warring sides prepared for fresh peace talks to end the brutal conflict. With the five-year anniversary of the violence looming, the main players in the...

Syria peace talks due to begin in Geneva this week look set to struggle with the sides showing no sign of compromise over the issue at the heart of the five-year-long conflict: the future of President Bashar al-Assad. The U.N.-led talks getting underway on Monday with U.S. and...

ISIS Sunday pulled its fighters out of Al-Rutbah, a desert town in the western Iraqi province of Anbar, an army general and the mayor said. "Daesh (ISIS) has completely pulled out of [Al-Rutbah] and gone towards Al-Qaim," a major general told AFP, referring to a extremist bastion on the...

The al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front seized bases and weapons from a Western-backed rebel group in overnight fighting in northwestern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday. Rami Abdulrahman, director of the Observatory, said the Nusra Front had also detained...

The Syria-based terrorist organization PYD should never be considered as a reliable partner for defeating Daesh, Turkish foreign minister said at the fifth meeting of the “Turkish-British Tatlidil Forum” in London Saturday. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu differed from the views of...

Rebels shoot down regime warplane in Hama province: state TV

Syria's main opposition group said it would attend peace talks on Monday but accused the government of President Bashar al-Assad of preparing to escalate the war to strengthen its negotiating position. The U.N.-brokered talks, which coincide with the fifth anniversary of the...

Two leaders from the Syrian opposition delegation arrived in Geneva on Saturday ahead of peace talks due to resume next week, AFP correspondents reported. Mohammed Alloush, a leading member of Islamist rebel group the Army of Islam and nominally chief negotiator for the umbrella opposition...

 Bashar al-Assad's ouster remains a "red line" for the regime, the country's top diplomat said Saturday ahead of fragile peace talks in Geneva. "We will not talk with anyone who wants to discuss the presidency.... Bashar al-Assad is a red line and is the property of the Syrian...

Syrian rebels on Saturday have shot down a regime warplane in the northern countryside of Hama province, although there were conflicting accounts on whether it had been brought down by a missile or anti-aircraft guns, state-run TV and group monitoring the conflict said. The Syrian Observatory...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Thousands of Syrians across rebel-held areas went to streets for the second week on Friday celebrating the revolution's fifth anniversary as a U.N.-sponsored ceasefire deal enters third week. The demonstrations in Aleppo, Idlib, Homs and Daraa have called back the memorable...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria will hold a presidential election in 18 months, Russia's RIA news agency on Friday quoted the United Nations peace mediator on Syria Staffan de Mistura as saying. The starting point for the election will be the latest round of Syria peace talks which are...

(Al Jazeera)- Dozens of residents in a besieged town outside the Syrian capital have staged a demonstration urging the United Nations to allow humanitarian aid into the area. The protesters, mostly women and children, took to the streets on Wednesday in rebel-held Darayya, which has been...

Syria's opposition said on Friday it would attend peace talks that were set for March 14, but downplayed the chances of reaching agreement with the Syrian government. A statement from the High Negotiations Committee said it would focus on the establishment of an interim...

Major powers close to U.N.-brokered peace talks on Syria are discussing the possibility of a federal division of the war-torn country that would maintain its unity as a single state while granting broad autonomy to regional authorities, diplomats said. The resumption of Geneva...