Two French school students who ran away to fight in Syria were back home Tuesday with some explaining to do to their bewildered parents and teachers and the police. The two boys, aged 15 and 16, flew to Turkey on January 6 with the apparent intention of crossing the border into Syria...

  The UN failed to break a deadlock at Syrian peace talks in Geneva on Tuesday, with negotiations interrupted after President Bashar al-Assad's regime pushed for a statement condemning the United States. After announcing the start of a fourth day of talks with a morning...

Syrian peace talks were due to resume in Geneva on Tuesday with the warring sides deadlocked over the explosive issue of transferring power from President Bashar al-Assad's regime. UN mediator Lakhdar Brahimi admitted as the talks closed on Monday that the negotiations "haven't...

The key issue of a transitional government to replace President Bashar Assad blocked any progress Monday in Syrian peace talks, described by one delegate as "a dialogue of the deaf." The chief U.N. mediator expressed frustration over inflammatory public remarks by the two sides as he...