The UN special envoy for Syria arrived in Damascus Tuesday to press fresh talks on forming a constitutional committee to revive a stalling peace process to end the eight-year war. "Pleased to be back in Damascus," Geir Pederson, a seasoned Norwegian diplomat and the fourth UN ambassador to...

Member states of the global chemical weapons watchdog voiced concern Tuesday that Syria may still possess such weapons after inspectors discovered traces of what could be a byproduct of a nerve agent or poison gas at a Syrian research facility. In a report submitted to the Organization for...

Activists have embarked on a so-called “I’ll Be Back Home” campaign in an attempt to urge concerned authorities to reconstruct Yarmouk Camp and allow displaced Palestinian families to safely return to their homes. The campaigners called on the concerned families to gather at...

Besides facing torture, many prisoners in Syrian jails are subjected to pay huge bribes in exchange of their freedom, say ex-prisoners. “My family paid a bribe of 500,000 Syrian liras (about $10,000) to one of the members of the Assad family for my release,” Um Hisam, 50, told Anadolu...