Key powerbrokers were scrambling Friday over plans to speed up a political settlement in Syria, with UN envoy Staffan de Mistura joining a second day of talks after negotiations in Moscow. A new round of peace talks backed by Russia, Iran and Turkey began in the Kazakh capital Astana on...

At least 16 people have died while waiting for medical evacuation from Syria's besieged Eastern Ghouta region, the United Nations said Thursday. Jan Egeland, head of the U.N.'s humanitarian taskforce for Syria, said a list put together several months ago of nearly 500 civilians in...

Russia's parliament Thursday ratified an agreement with Damascus to expand the Russian military's naval facility in the Syrian port of Tartus. The agreement was signed in Syria in January and was sent last week by Russian President Vladimir Putin for ratification by the parliament's...

(Eqtsad)- After an absence of more than 50 years, stone and clay dwellings and houses have remerged in conjunction with the regime forces destroying many buildings and houses in Daraa province.  “Mud and stone houses emerged in the past two years in several places in Daraa...