The Syrian opposition to President Bashar al-Assad rejected a Russian-sponsored congress of Syrian groups scheduled for Nov. 18 in Sochi and insisted any peace talks be held under U.N. sponsorship in Geneva, opposition officials said on Wednesday. Russia, which intervened decisively in...

Trauma surgeon Shazeer Majeed has worked for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Yemen, South Sudan and Iraq. He is now working in northern Syria, a region gripped by instability, and shares his day-to-day reality of trying to keep victims of war alive. "We usually think of the...

By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- Former Secretary-General of the opposition's Syrian National Coalition said a joint committee of the Syrian Interim Prime Minister and al-Shamiyah Front to re-evaluate the status of Bab al-Salameh crossing, expecting there will be a new direction to...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Russia has invited the Kurdish-led authorities in northern Syria to its proposed congress of Syria’s rival parties in November, a senior Kurdish official said on Tuesday, as Moscow seeks to launch a new initiative to end the Syrian conflict. “We are studying the...