After the failure of its $500 million program to stand up a Syrian volunteer force to battle Islamic State extremists, the Obama administration has begun an effort to enable Arab militias to fight alongside a Kurdish force that has gotten U.S. air support for the past year. The stated U.S. aim...

The Syrian National Coalition, key opposition group, is preparing to take legal action against officials in the United Nations over expired biscuits case that were sent to besieged towns near Damascus on Oct. 18, source told Zaman al Wasl. The United Nations said Saturday it had mistakenly sent...

At least 14 people, including 4 children and a woman, were killed when Russian warplanes struck rebel-held villages in the southern countryside of Aleppo, activists said Tuesday. Syrian troops and fighters from Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah militia, backed by Russian airstrikes have waged major...

A Russian foreign ministry official said on Monday delegations from the Western-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) had visited Moscow several times, Russian news agencies reported, as Moscow stepped up political efforts to resolve the crisis in Syria. The Kremlin also said President Vladimir Putin,...