(The Daily Star)- More than a week of U.N.-sponsored peace talks ended in Geneva Friday, the main opposition group said, calling the results "more positive" than previous rounds. "We are closing this round without (a) clear result ... but I can say this time was more positive," Nasr...

After his arrest and torture by the government of Bashar al-Assad, dissident Khaled Rawas slipped out of Syria pledging to continue the fight. On Wednesday, he did just that — joining a landmark legal complaint in Germany seeking something that has long proved elusive for the victims of the...

Russia Thursday said stumbling U.N.-led Syrian peace talks in Geneva have sparked doubts that the opposition is capable of agreeing a deal with the regime in Damascus. "The results of the first days of the intra-Syrian dialogues, as before, raise questions over the ability of the Syrian...

ISIS fighters withdrew from much of the Syrian oasis city of Palmyra overnight, activists said Thursday, but government forces paused before entering its ravaged ancient ruins because of mines. Russian-backed Syrian troops pushed into a western neighborhood of the city late Wednesday...