The United Nations on Friday halted the evacuation of civilians from the blockaded city of Homs until the fate of men detained from the rebel-held areas becomes clear, a senior U.N. official said. The development came just a day after a cease-fire was extended for three more days, the...

The global chemical arms watchdog said Friday it has chosen two U.S. and Finnish companies to help destroy Syria’s chemical arsenal as part of an ambitious plan that has suffered a string of setbacks. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Finland’s...

 Warning that "failure" was staring him in the face, the Syria peace talks mediator said on Thursday that the United States and Russia had promised renewed support to keep their rival Syrian allies talking. U.N. diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi met senior diplomats from Washington and...

Among the dwindling holdouts in the rebel-held Old City neighborhood of Homs, an area of the devastated Syrian city that international relief officials are trying to evacuate, is the former star goalkeeper of the national soccer team, transformed over three years from a pacifist...