A suicide bomber from an al Qaeda-linked rebel group killed 13 soldiers in an attack on the Syrian defence minister's hometown, an opposition monitoring group said on Tuesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a Saudi militant who came to Syria to fight with the country's al...

  Syrian peace talks in Geneva were deadlocked Monday over the explosive issue of transferring power from President Bashar al-Assad's regime, delegates from the warring sides said. But both parties said they were not planning to walk away from the talks, even though a...

    A second shipment of chemical weapons materials has been removed from Syria under a deal to eliminate its arsenal, the joint U.N. mission overseeing the disarmament said Monday. “Today, a further shipment of chemical weapons materials took place from...

  They were sleepy tree-lined boulevards where people lived and worked, time-worn markets where they came to trade and exquisitely detailed mosques where, throughout the ages, they prayed. All now stand in ruins, ravaged by a war that is not only killing generations of...