The U.N. envoy for Syria held talks in Damascus on Sunday with Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, who stressed the need for a Syrian-led political solution to the eight-year war. Norwegian diplomat Geir Pedersen discussed efforts to find a political settlement to the conflict, including...

War is personal. And in Syria, after eight years of a grinding conflict, there are as many stories of loss, dispossession and desperate hope as there are people. What started as peaceful protests in 2011 asking for government change turned into one of the cruelest modern wars and left a...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged all parties involved in the Syrian conflict to maintain their commitments and uphold the ceasefire arrangement in the country’s northern Idlib province. In a written statement released on Friday, Guterres said: “I am extremely concerned...

The fate of Syrians and their country changed forever over the course of a few fateful days in March 2011. The revolutionaries' initial demands of freedom, justice and dignity still feel distant for Syria's millions displaced at home and abroad. Eight years on, Syrians have...