Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu Friday said the military has completed the partial withdrawal from Syria ordered by President Vladimir Putin, ending over two years of active involvement in the conflict. "Your order to withdraw the contingent of Russian forces from Syria has been...

Key powerbrokers were scrambling Friday over plans to speed up a political settlement in Syria, with UN envoy Staffan de Mistura joining a second day of talks after negotiations in Moscow. A new round of peace talks backed by Russia, Iran and Turkey began in the Kazakh capital Astana on...

A Syrian congress of national dialogue will be held in the Russian city of Sochi on Jan. 29-30, the RIA news agency cited Kazakhstan's foreign ministry as saying on Friday.

By Yousef  Halabi  (Zaman Al Wasl)- December 22, 2016 was not a normal day for the people of Aleppo. It was a day associated with an infamous human tragedy that will never be forgotten.  The al-Assad regime, with Russian and Iranian support, displaced thousands of...