Syria's opposition coalition said on Tuesday it would not attend international peace talks in Geneva next month if President Bashar al-Assad's forces continued a fierce air raid campaign on the northern city of Aleppo. More than 300 people had been killed in a week of air raids on...
Russia will host an international meeting on Friday to discuss the elimination of Syria's chemical weapons, Interfax news agency cited Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying. Experts from Russia, the United States, the United Nations, the Organisation for the Prohibition of...

After fleeing a rebel assault on the historic Syrian town of Maalula, hundreds of Christian families sheltering in Damascus are preparing for a bleak Christmas away from home. The picturesque hamlet -- where residents still speak the ancient Aramaic of Jesus Christ -- was a symbol of...