ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran denied on Wednesday a monitoring group's report that an Iranian nuclear scientist had been killed in Syria last week, according to the official IRNA news agency. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday five nuclear...

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian authorities detained a prominent Damascus-based writer and dissident Wednesday as he was trying to leave the country, his political party said. Louay Hussein was taken into custody at the Syria-Lebanon border as he was heading to Spain to visit his...

(Reuters) - The United Nations peace envoy to Syria said on Tuesday that Syrian officials had given him positive signals over a U.N. proposal for a local truce in the northern city of Aleppo, a main battleground in Syria's three-year-old war. Speaking in a televised...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad said Monday that the U.N. envoy's proposal to implement a cease-fire in the embattled northern city of Aleppo was "worth studying." The envoy, Staffan de Mistura, first raised the idea of small-scale, localized and negotiated...