The Syrian army and rebels, including jihadist groups, fought in the capital Damascus and north of Hama on Thursday after the insurgents' biggest offensive for months, underscoring the bleak prospects for peace talks which resume later in the day. The offensive seems unlikely to reverse 18...

Australia rejected 500 Syrian refugees on security grounds during more than a year of vetting while accepting 12,000 eligible for resettlement from Middle Eastern camps, an official said Thursday. Immigration and Border Protection Minister Peter Dutton said the deadly rampage near Britain's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian Kurdish National Council responded to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who said his country was discussing with Turkey the need to represent the Kurds in the Geneva negotiations. "Lavrov knows very well that the Kurds have been represented in the negotiations...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hama Governor on Wednesday has refuted pro-regime media reports over a massacre committed by rebels in the northern countryside of the central province. Mohaled Hazzouri told Damascus-based Sham FM radio that reports of killing 25 civilians by Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, the former...