The U.N. envoy for Syria held talks in Damascus on Sunday with Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, who stressed the need for a Syrian-led political solution to the eight-year war. Norwegian diplomat Geir Pedersen discussed efforts to find a political settlement to the conflict, including...

War is personal. And in Syria, after eight years of a grinding conflict, there are as many stories of loss, dispossession and desperate hope as there are people. What started as peaceful protests in 2011 asking for government change turned into one of the cruelest modern wars and left a...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced Thursday the appointment of Khawla Matar of Bahrain as the Deputy Special Envoy for Syria. Ms. Matar succeeds Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy of Egypt, to whom the Secretary‑General reiterates his gratitude for his efforts in the...

Eight years since Syria began its descent into war, many of President Bashar al-Assad’s enemies have been defeated and the bulk of the country is back under his control. But he isn’t celebrating. “We must not wrongly think, as happened in the last year, that the war is over. I say...