The UN envoy for Syria held "substantial" talks Sunday in Damascus with Foreign Minister Walid Muallem on efforts to find a political settlement to the country's eight-year-long war. "We have had very detailed substantial discussions," Norwegian diplomat Geir Pedersen told reporters after...

Iraq has begun trial proceedings for nearly 900 Iraqi suspected members of the Islamic State group caught fleeing jihadist territory in neighbouring Syria, a judicial source told AFP on Sunday. They were handed over to Iraqi authorities by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, which...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Facebook pages of Syrian refugees and residents in Sudan tried to avoid and ‘social media’ debate over the ongoing revolution in the Arab country. Few expressed their frustration over the halt air flights from Khartoum airport or the decline of the Sudanese currency against...

 Syrian Kurds on Saturday repatriated 25 women and children from Iraq's Yazidi minority after freeing them during the final push against Daesh (ISIS), a local official said. The U.S.-backed fighters say they rescued some 300 Yazidi women and children during the fight to take the...