Russian President Vladimir Putin is undermining international efforts to end the Syrian civil war by bombing opponents of Islamic State in an attempt to bolster Bashar al-Assad, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Monday. In a clear sign of frustration with the Kremlin, Hammond...

King Abdullah of Jordan says his country is at "boiling point" because of an influx of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees. Ahead of a donor conference on Syria, the king told the BBC that there was enormous pressure on Jordan's social services, infrastructure and economy. "Sooner or...

Syria's government agreed on Monday to allow aid into several besieged areas including the starvation-struck town of Madaya, the UN said, in an apparent goodwill gesture ahead of peace talks. "The government has in principle approved convoys... to Madaya and simultaneously to Kafraya and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime troops and allied fighters captured two villages in the northern countryside of Aleppo on Monday, putting a key supply route used by opposition forces into firing range, according to Reuters. Rebels said the offensive was being conducted with massive Russian air...