The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday began debating a Western-Arab draft resolution that would demand humanitarian aid access to besieged areas in conflict-torn Syria, a text Russia has dismissed as "detached from reality." The text was prepared by Australia, Luxembourg and Jordan,...

Peace talks between the Syrian government and opposition are not making much progress, international mediator Lakhdar Brahimi said on Tuesday after a face-to-face meeting of the warring parties in Geneva. As negotiations intended to end Syria's three-year-old war concluded the...

A woman curls up in grief in a darkened room - an artist's image as powerful as any of the thousands of photos and videos from Syria's civil war flashing across the world's computer and television screens. The sketch is the work of 63-year-old painter and illustrator Youssef...

  Russia  and  China  on Monday rebuffed the United States,  France  and Britain and other states by failing to attend negotiations on a draft U.N. Security Council resolution to boost aid access in  Syria , diplomats said. Australia ,...