(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces and Shiite allies have pressed more advances on Friday in the northern province of Aleppo, activists and regime-run media said. Regime troops and their Lebanese and Iranian allies fully encircled the countryside north of Aleppo and cut off the main supply...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday Russia must be held accountable for the people it has killed in Syria, arguing that Moscow and Damascus were together responsible for 400,000 deaths there, Dogan News Agency reported. Speaking at a joint press conference with his...

Vladimir Putin thinks Russian air strikes in Syria have helped turn the war's tide but the pace of the Syrian army's advance has frustrated him, some sources say. If Aleppo falls, he could get the military and symbolic prize he has been craving. More than four months of Russian...

The United Nations has no plans to change the format of invitations for the next round of Syria talks, which it hopes to start by Feb. 25, a U.N. official involved in arranging the talks told Reuters TV Friday. "There will be no further invitations. No new invitations will be issued in a...