(Al-Jazeera)- A delegation of Syrian rebels attending a new round of talks in Kazakhstan's capital will not hold direct talks with representatives of the government, according to opposition sources. The meetings in Astana, organised by Russia and Turkey, are aimed at strengthening a shaky...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes killed 7 people on Sunday in air strikes hit the embattled northern countryside of Homs province a day before the start of Syrian peace talks in Astana, local activists said. The aerial bombing targeted the twons of Talbiesh, Rastan and al-Houleh....

(New York Times)- Nisreen al-Najjar thought the worst was behind her family when it fled to Jordan from war-torn Homs in Syria. Then, two years later, though safe from the shelling and the Syrian civil war, her son Hisham, who was 5, began to rapidly lose weight. When Ms. Najjar...

A car bomb blast killed at least four civilians at a camp for displaced Syrians by the border with Jordan Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights activists said. "A car bomb exploded on the outskirts of the Rukban camp on the Jordanian border, killing four displaced people and...