U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has invited Iran to participate in upcoming peace talks on Syria, a move that immediately angered the opposition. The invitation to this week's opening-day session of the so-called Geneva 2 came as he held a surprise news conference...

Forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad are preparing to attack rebel towns in the countryside of Homs city, activists say. 7000 regular soldiers and 2000 militants (National Defence militia) backed with 20 tanks will break into rebel-held towns of al-Zara and al-Huson towns in...

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The Al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has reached out to other rebel groups in Syria to head off infighting, in an audio message posted online Sunday. "Today, the (Islamic) state is reaching out to you to stop fighting us, to focus on fighting the...