The U.S. State Department said on Saturday it will not send a delegation from Washington to attend Syrian peace talks in the Kazakh capital next week due to immediate demands of the transition. The State Department's acting spokesman Mark Toner said U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan, George...

(New York Times)- Nisreen al-Najjar thought the worst was behind her family when it fled to Jordan from war-torn Homs in Syria. Then, two years later, though safe from the shelling and the Syrian civil war, her son Hisham, who was 5, began to rapidly lose weight. When Ms. Najjar...

(Foreign Policy)- Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii has just departed war-torn Damascus following what her aides described as a “fact-finding” mission to work toward ending the nearly six-year conflict in Syria. Congressional travel to the devastated country is exceedingly rare,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- As Islamic State inflicts humiliating defeats on the Syrian regime forces in the eastern Deir Ezzor province, Damascus has opened an aerial bridge in several airports in Syria, to deliver weapons and troops to backed the recessive forces, sources said. IIyushin II-76 aircraft,...