The U.N. special envoy for Syria has vowed to take fragile peace talks into next week despite a walkout by the main armed opposition, a breakdown in a truce and signs that both sides are gearing up to escalate the five-year-old civil war. Staffan de Mistura, who dismissed the...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (EQTSAD)- Baroha, a small village in the western countryside of central Homs province, with a population counted 2300 people before the Syrian revolution, the majority of them (85%) were Sunni, and the rest were from the Alawite minority. It is adjacent the village...

Reporting by Eqab Malek; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime's air force directorate has rewarded military pilots who conduct the deadly air strikes on Syrian people, source told Zaman al-Wasl Thursday. The rewards were disbursed by the M.General Jameel al-Hassan, head...

More than 21 pro-government militiamen have been killed in two days of battles with Syrian Kurdish forces in northeast Syria that has widened the Kurds' control over a city at the border with Turkey, a Syrian Kurdish official said. Five members of the Kurdish internal...