The new United Nations envoy on the Syria conflict, Staffan de Mistura, is to make his first trip to Damascus on Tuesday, Syrian media and activists said. De Mistura will hold three days of talks on the "prospects for a solution" to the conflict that has ravaged Syria since...

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Syrian rebels have made fresh advances near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in Qunaitra province, where 26 troops and 17 rebels were killed in a battle Saturday, an activist group said. Fighting has raged in the province since August, when rebels and the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra...