UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Syria has expressed regret that talks between the government and opposition scheduled to start on July 25 in Geneva “are no longer possible,” reportedly because President Bashir Assad’s government contends that Switzerland is not neutral...

The Turkish foreign ministry has slammed informal proposals to deport UK asylum seekers to Turkey. UK foreign minister Liz Truss had told MPs in private this weekend that she would like to open negotiations with Turkey and other states to send undocumented migrants who arrive in the UK,...

The Syrian regime forces intensified their artillery and missile shelling, targeting villages and towns in the countryside of Idlib, Hama and Aleppo, located within the so-called "fourth de-escalation zone", local sources told Zaman al-Wasl.  Regime forces and Russia-backed militias...

Five people including three children drowned on Friday in separate incidents in northwestern Syria, bringing the number of drownings in the same region to 25 since the beginning of this year. These took place near the city of Afrin in the Aleppo governorate, close to the Turkish border....