Moscow did not ask Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down, nor did it offer him political asylum, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday. "In both cases, the answer is: 'No,'" Lavrov told his annual news conference. "This is untrue ... No one asked about political asylum, and...

The head of the Syrian opposition's negotiating team said he was not optimistic about upcoming peace talks, casting further doubt on whether the group will attend meetings planned for Friday in Geneva. Assad al-Zoubi was quoted by Arabic news channel Al-Hadath saying recent...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- ِA Syrian refugee family in Lebanon said their two-month-old baby boy was died due to a medical mistake that led to septicemia in a Tripoli-based hospital. Saeed's family, who thought their baby's illness was no more than an infection could be...

At least 22 people were killed in an ISIS double suicide bomb attack at an army checkpoint in the central Syrian city of Homs Tuesday, AFP reported. In a breaking news alert, state television said 100 people had also been injured in the blasts in the Zara neighborhood of the city, which has...