Russia, the United States and the United Nations will hold talks on Syria in Geneva on Friday as diplomatic efforts to end the conflict are ratcheted up, Moscow and Washington announced. “We will be having consultations in the trilateral format -- Russia, the United States and the UN,”...

Syria's fragmented opposition and rebel groups sought common ground on Wednesday ahead of planned negotiations to end a conflict which has devastated the country and drawn forces from Cold War and Middle East rivals into ever deeper combat operations. The talks in Saudi...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian air strikes on the embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs have killed 26 people, activists said Wednesday. Russia's aerial bombing targeted  al Abbadeh town east of the capital, leaving at least 8 people, , mostly children and women, dead and dozens wounded. 14...

  (Council On Foreign Relations- Philip H. Gordon) Of all the factors currently tearing the Middle East apart, none is more consequential than the war in Syria.  The war has left some 250,000 Syrians dead, seven million internally displaced, and three million forced to flee to...