The Syrian regime army and its allies made further advances on Tuesday in a major offensive that could cut insurgents' supply lines between the north western city of Aleppo and the Turkish border, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The advances, backed by allied...

Writing by Ethar Abdulhaq; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Bashar Jaafari, the Permanent Representative of the Syrian regime to the United Nations, has been dubbed “the Lion of Geneva Negotiations” by regime loyalist due to his eagerness to defend the Syrian regime and adopting...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is undermining international efforts to end the Syrian civil war by bombing opponents of Islamic State in an attempt to bolster Bashar al-Assad, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Monday. In a clear sign of frustration with the Kremlin, Hammond...

King Abdullah of Jordan says his country is at "boiling point" because of an influx of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees. Ahead of a donor conference on Syria, the king told the BBC that there was enormous pressure on Jordan's social services, infrastructure and economy. "Sooner or...