A meeting of UN, US and Russian envoys on Monday is expected to agree that a Syria peace conference should be held in January, diplomats said. UN leader Ban Ki-moon is to announce the date shortly after the meeting in Geneva, the envoys said. The conference on the worsening...

    Denmark’s security service said Sunday it suspects around 80 people have travelled from Denmark to Syria to join the civil war since mid-2012.   In a report, the service known as PET said those who travel to Syria are mainly Sunni Muslim men...

More than 11,000 children have died in Syria's civil war in nearly three years, including hundreds targeted by snipers, a new report says. Summary executions and torture have also been used against children as young as one, the London-based Oxford Research Group think tank says. The...

Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda main branch in Syria, issued a circular, warning its jihadists of moving or touring without an escort of local fighters over kidnapping 7 foreign jihadists in Raqqa, east Syria so far, field sources told Zaman Alwasl. The Islamic Movement of Ahrar...