GENEVA (Reuters) - A round of Syria peace talks that ended on Thursday was a big missed opportunity but there may more talks next month if ideas can be found to encourage President Bashar al-Assad’s government to engage, U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura said. He said neither side had...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces have evacuated 19 Daesh fighters, including commanders, from their stronghold in southern Damascus suburbs, source told Zaman al-Wasl on Thursday.  The extremist fighters have left the district of al-Hajer al-Aswad over the week under...

U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura urged Russia on Wednesday to convince its ally the Syrian government of the need to clinch a peace deal to end the nearly seven-year-old war. De Mistura, speaking on Swiss television station RTS, said failure to make peace quickly through...

The United States is turning a blind eye to information provided by Russia about Syrian fighters travelling to Iraq, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday. "There is no [U.S.] reaction," Putin told his annual news conference. "Why? Because they [in the U.S.] are thinking that...