U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres hailed Thursday as a "landmark" the first meeting of a committee comprising Syrian government and opposition negotiators, tasked with amending the war-torn country's constitution. On Wednesday, the two sides sat face-to-face in Geneva for the launch...

Rival sides in Syria's long-running war have sat face to face for the first time after almost eight-and-a-half years of war, in an attempt to begin work on a new governing document. A total of 150 delegates representing the government, opposition and civil society on Wednesday met at a...

Syria's government condemned what it called the occupation of its land and the opposition demanded justice and peace Wednesday at the opening of a U.N.-backed panel designed to bring about political reconciliation ending years of civil war. The first meeting of Syria's so-called...

Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's "caliphate" in Baghouz, Syria. Today, they're crammed together: 5,000 presumed jihadists in an overcrowded Kurdish prison in the country's northeast. AFP...