A breakthrough in U.N.-backed Syria peace talks in Geneva this week seems hardly more likely than in seven failed earlier rounds as President Bashar al-Assad pushes for total military victory and his opponents stick by their demand he leave power. U.N. Syria mediator Staffan de Mistura...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 9 civilians have been killed on Monday in renewed airstrikes on the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs near the Capital, local activists said. Monday’s strikes targeted Madyara suburb topping the death toll to 160 people, including 30 children, since the...

At least 80 people have been killed in just over 24 hours in suspected Russian and Syrian government shelling in the eastern and southern parts of Syria.  The majority of those killed were civilians.  In the eastern province of Deir Az Zor, suspected Russian warplanes...

The Syrian regime's delegation delayed its departure to the peace talks due to resume in Geneva on Tuesday. The pro-Syrian government newspaper al-Watan cited on Monday sources in Geneva saying the Syrian government was not pleased by the statement made last week in a Syrian opposition...