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...

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...

At a closed door meeting, Western governments led by the United States took Syria to task for failing to surrender its chemical weapons under ambitious deadlines agreed with Russia after a poison gas attack in August. Speaker after speaker stood up to berate Damascus at the Organisation for...