Among the dwindling holdouts in the rebel-held Old City neighborhood of Homs, an area of the devastated Syrian city that international relief officials are trying to evacuate, is the former star goalkeeper of the national soccer team, transformed over three years from a pacifist...

Moscow Wednesday accused Washington of deliberately distorting its position on conflict-torn Syria, a day after US President Barack Obama branded Russia as a holdout against a UN draft resolution on Syria aid. "This is unlikely that our US partners do not possess real information on...

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...