A U.N. plan to suspend Syria 's nearly five-year-old civil war calls for listing which militant groups may be fought despite an eventual ceasefire, one of the toughest issues vexing diplomats trying to end the conflict. A U.N. draft discussion paper obtained by Reuters includes...

Germany will start holding personal hearings for asylum seekers from Syria as of Friday, an Interior Ministry spokeswoman told Reuters on Thursday, reversing a policy of granting almost automatic refugee status for Syrians. Syrians have since the end of 2014 enjoyed a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two rebel fighters killed Wednesday in al-Waer neighborhood of the central city of Homs, in the first breach of the U.N.-brokered ceasefire reached early December, local activist said. Hassan al-Asmar, al-Waer-based activist, said Shiite popular committees had opened fire on...

Twin suicide bombings hit two restaurants in a Kurdish-controlled city in northeastern Syria on Wednesday, killing or wounding dozens of people, a Kurdish official and a group monitoring the war said. The explosions took place in Qamishli, near the Turkish border, the Kurdish...