The al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front has withdrawn from frontline positions against Islamic State north of Aleppo and ceded them to other rebels, leaving an area of northern Syria where Turkey wants to establish a buffer zone. A Nusra Front statement dated Sunday criticized a Turkish-U.S....

Islamic State militants have captured dozens of Christian families after seizing a strategically located town in the central Syrian province of Homs, a monitor said on Friday. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 230 people were kidnapped or detained,...

Iran said on Thursday the United States should seize the opportunity created by a nuclear deal reached between the country and six major powers to change what it called a foreign policy of "threats of coercion". "The use of threats of coercion as a foreign policy will give no...

By Abdullah al-Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Hassan Abdul-Azim, the General Coordinator for the Opposition Coordinating Committee for Democratic Change said that the National Coalition has tackled the obstacle of Assad’s stepping down in Geneva2, as Kofi Anan’s initiative had not...