Russia on Friday blocked a US-drafted UN Security Council statement condemning the Syrian government's increasing military offensive on Aleppo, diplomats said. The move heightened diplomatic tensions ahead of a key Russia-US-UN meeting in Geneva on Friday on...

Al-Qaeda's branch in Syria will not accept any results that come from peace talks next month to end the civil war, its chief said in an Al-Jazeera television interview to be aired Thursday. "We will not recognise any results that come out of the Geneva 2 conference," Al-Jazeera's...

The body of a British doctor whose death in a Syrian jail was announced this week will be transported to Britain's embassy in Beirut, Syria's deputy foreign minister told AFP Thursday. "At the family's request, the Syrian authorities and International Committee of the Red Cross are...

  Syrian warplanes pounded the northern Aleppo province for a fifth consecutive day on Thursday targeting its rebel-held villages, activists reported.   At least 10 people were killed in the latest attacks, among them are four women and two children, the Syrian...