The "best alternative" to prevent an all-out humanitarian catastrophe in northwestern Syria's Idlib province is to institute a safe zone in the region, the Syria envoy under President Barack Obama said in remarks published Monday. "The best option that eschews direct U.S. military...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Opposition activists said the circumstances behind the return of the famed torture victim Mazen Al-Hamada from  Netherlands  to Damascus is complicated due to the financial and psychological pressures and the forgiveness vows by the Syrian regime....

Amid intensifying fighting in recent weeks in Idlib and Aleppo, in which two Syrian journalists were killed and eight were injured, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) voices concern about the risks for reporters covering military operations in Syria and calls for every effort to be made to...

Russia and Turkey are preparing talks on how to de-escalate fighting in Syria’s Idlib province, TASS news agency reported on Monday, citing Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. “Another series of consultations, which we hope will lead us to an agreement on how to ensure that this is...