A Syrian opposition leader said on Monday that the opposition would not stop fighting until the Syrian government committed to the United Nations process and a political transition. “We are ready to negotiate starting tomorrow,” Hadi al-Bahra said in a televised press conference from...

A flare-up of fighting in Syria that has seen the government lose control of Aleppo poses a grave threat to regional and international security, the UN envoy for Syria said Sunday. “I call for urgent and serious political engagement -- among Syrian and international stakeholders -- to...

The Syrian opposition factions, through two simultaneous military operations, were able to control the Military Engineering Academy, the Artillery College, and one of the neighborhoods of Aleppo city, in addition to controlling the cities of Al-Safira and Khanaser in the southeastern...

Russian and Syrian jets struck the opposition-held city of Idlib on Sunday in the second day of intensive bombing in northern Syria aimed at pushing back fighters who had swept through to the city of Aleppo, Syrian army sources said. Residents said one of the raids hit a crowded residential...