Syria's government may have madelegitimizing blunder by turning up at peace talks in Geneva since it had little to gain, little room for maneuver and may have started down a slippery slope by legitimizing its opponents, diplomats say according to Reuters. But its chief...

Raed Fares, a leading activist behind the posters and videos of Syria’s protests, has been shot twice in the back and is being treated in a hospital in Idlib, according to EA. His condition is said to be “stabilized”. Fares is a driving force of the banners of...

 Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov offered his resignation to President Viktor Yanukovich on Tuesday, saying he hoped his departure would help towards a peaceful settlement to two months of unrest which has convulsed the former Soviet republic. The 66-year-old Azarov...

The key issue of a transitional government to replace President Bashar Assad blocked any progress Monday in Syrian peace talks, described by one delegate as "a dialogue of the deaf." The chief U.N. mediator expressed frustration over inflammatory public remarks by the two sides as he...