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A Syrian cease-fire could be in place within weeks, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday. Speaking in an interview with U.S. news channel CNN, Kerry said a growing coalition including Russia and Iran “gives us an opportunity to perhaps get a ceasefire in place within the next...

(Reuters)- Russia said on Tuesday it had stepped up airstrikes against Islamist militants in Syria with long-range bombers and cruise missiles after the Kremlin said it wanted retribution for those responsible for blowing up a Russian airliner over Egypt. President Vladimir Putin, visiting the...

The annual birth rate in Syria has fallen by more than half since the civil war broke out in 2011, Al-Watan newspaper reported Tuesday. Salah al-Sheikha, dean of Damascus University's faculty of medicine, told the newspaper that before the war Syria recorded around 500,000 births per year....