Syrian authorities have detained 336 men who left Homs and are still questioning most of them without direct supervision by any neutral third party, the  United Nations  said on Tuesday. The men, deemed to be of fighting age by the Syrian authorities, were among...

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...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday a draft U.N. resolution on aid access in  Syria  was "detached from reality" and urged the West to refrain from what it called one-sided accusations against Damascus. Australia, Luxembourg and Jordan last week...

Activists and rebels said an al Qaeda splinter group had withdrawn its forces from Syria's oil-rich eastern province of Deir al-Zour on Monday after days of heavy fighting with its rivals, Reuters said. Islamist opposition groups joined forces with some secular rebel...