The main session of the 16th round of Astana talks on Syria was held in Kazakhstan on Thursday with the attendance of representatives of the regime and opposition forces. The talks, which were initiated on Wednesday with bilateral and trilateral meetings of the guarantor countries --...

 A top EU official warned Thursday that the potential closure of the only remaining border crossing through which humanitarian aid can enter parts of Syria held by anti-government insurgents would have “dramatic" consequences for millions of civilians. In an interview with The...

 A U.N. resolution proposed late Wednesday would allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to rebel-held northwest Syria through just one crossing point from Turkey for a year after objections to an initial Security Council draft that would have authorized sending aid through two border...

The global death toll from COVID-19 eclipsed 4 million Wednesday as the crisis increasingly becomes a race between the vaccine and the highly contagious delta variant. The tally of lives lost over the past year and a half, as compiled from official sources by Johns Hopkins University,...