The "Friends of Syria", an alliance of mainly Western and Gulf Arab countries who oppose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, urged opposition groups on Sunday to attend this month's peace talks, saying there was no alternative for a political solution. "There is no other...

A car bomb exploded outside a bus terminal in central Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least nine people and wounding 16, police and medics said. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack at the Allawi al-Hillah bus terminal but Sunni Islamist insurgents have been gaining...

Syria’s key opposition leader will meet Russian Foreign Minister in Paris,  on January 13 , in the  runup to the Geneva 2 conference on Syria,  source told Zaman Alwasl. The Syrian National Coalition's top representatives - President Ahmad al-Jarba and...

27 people have been killed by shelling of forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad in the embattled neighborhood of Waer in Homs city, with possibility to increase the death toll, activists reported. Two days ago, Assad forces killed dozens of rebel fighters who tried to break an army siege...