The fifth round of Syrian constitutional committee talks started on Monday in Geneva – in a fresh attempt to end the almost decadelong conflict and find a path to peace under U.N. mediation. Negotiators of the Bashar Assad regime as well as opposition leaders attended a session of talks to...

Ugandan soldiers working as part of a peacekeeping force in Somalia have killed 189 al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab fighters in an attack on one of their camps, the Ugandan army said. Ugandan troops are part of the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia, whose aim is to support the...

IDLIB, Syria — Syrians are finding it hard to move around in northwest Syria, where Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and Turkish-backed opposition factions control the crossings linking the areas in Idlib and the western countryside of Aleppo, and the Olive Branch and Euphrates Shield areas. The...

Storms and heavy rains have affected thousands of displaced Syrians living in camps throughout the country's northwest. Children's advocacy group Save The Children says that more than 40,000 people have been affected by the recent storm. More than 2,500 tents have been destroyed...