Ghada's five children cried out in terror when police broke into their run-down Istanbul flat at dawn and ordered the 36-year-old Syrian's family onto a bus, without saying why. The family of seven from the northern Syrian city of Aleppo was among a group of refugees rounded up two weeks ago...

(Zaman Al Wasl- BBC)- Hundreds of fighters and civilians in three besieged parts of Syria have been evacuated under a truce deal brokered by the United Nations. Buses and ambulances ferried at least 120 Sunni rebels and civilians from Zabadani into nearby Lebanon. At the same time,...

Syria's opposition has yet to reach a consensus on a list of its delegates who will lead negotiations with the central government, Interfax news agency on Monday quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying. The Syrian government, meanwhile, was ready for the talks, Lavrov said.

At least 32 people were killed and 90 wounded in two bomb explosions in the Syrian city of Homs on Monday, monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The blasts, one from a car bomb and another from a suicide attack, struck the Zahra district in the middle of the city, said...