(The Daily Star)- More than a week of U.N.-sponsored peace talks ended in Geneva Friday, the main opposition group said, calling the results "more positive" than previous rounds. "We are closing this round without (a) clear result ... but I can say this time was more positive," Nasr...

A Jordanian army ambulance pulled up at a makeshift clinic a few hundred metres from a desert border camp where tens of thousands of Syrian refugees are trapped in no man's land. A paramedic clambered out, carrying an emaciated boy around two years old. "Whose child is this?" he shouted...

After his arrest and torture by the government of Bashar al-Assad, dissident Khaled Rawas slipped out of Syria pledging to continue the fight. On Wednesday, he did just that — joining a landmark legal complaint in Germany seeking something that has long proved elusive for the victims of the...

Damage to the World Heritage site of Palymra by ISIS militants may be less than earlier believed, Syria's antiquities chief said Friday. Maamoun Abdulkarim told Reuters that video from Palmyra after it was recaptured by the Syrian army has shown less damage than archaeologists feared when...