Talks between representatives of the Syrian government and some members of the opposition have ended in Moscow with no sign of a significant breakthrough. The second such talks in Moscow this year were marred by friction among President Bashar al-Assad's critics, and were not attended by...

 The International Committee of the Red Cross called on Thursday for immediate access to a Palestinian refugee camp in  Syria  which has largely been seized by Islamic State and where 18,000 people are caught up in fighting. The independent aid agency said that emergency...

United Nations  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday he had asked his Syria mediator to "focus much more to re-launch a political process" in a bid to end the four-year civil war that has killed some 220,000 people and displaced millions. Mediator Staffan...

(By Faris Al Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed)  Fighters of Al Qaeda's Syria wing, the Nusra Front, assaulted a prominent activist for lifting the Revolution’s Flag in Bostan al-Qasr neighborhood of Aleppo last Friday.  Hozaifa Dahman, the attacked...