A Turkish photographer kidnapped while covering the civil war in neighboring Syria has been freed, Turkey’s state news agency said Sunday. Bunyamin Aygun, who works for the newspaper Milliyet, was taken hostage by radical Islamists late last year during a...

    Syria's main opposition National Coalition re-elected Ahmad Jarba as its leader during a general assembly meeting in Istanbul on Sunday, the coalition said in a statement. Jarba won 65 votes, beating his only rival Riad Hijab -- the best-known defector from the...

Former Syrian Prime Minister Riad Hijab, who defected in July 2012 from Bashar al-Assad's government, is to compete for the National Coalition presidency chair S u nday evening, sources said to Zaman Alwasl. The Syrian opposition scheduled to meet on 15 and 16 January in...

The United States on Sunday appeared for the first time to hold out the possibility that  Iran  might play a role on the sidelines of a Syria peace conference even if Tehran is not formally invited. Washington, and Syrian opposition groups, have long had reservations...