Syria's warring sides met briefly together in the same room on Saturday for the first time since peace talks started in Geneva, the U.N. said. U.N. mediator Lakhdar Brahimi's spokeswoman confirmed Saturday morning that he and the two sides were meeting in the same...

  A group linked to al Qaeda, emboldened by its recent victory over rival rebels in Syria, has imposed sweeping restrictions on personal freedoms in the northern province of Raqqa as it seeks to consolidate control over the region. The ISIL radicals have...

One of the Islamic Front powerful leaders described the Syrian opposition president in his negotiations with Assad’s regime in Geneva as a new Arthur Belfour, who promised the Jewish people of a national home in Palestine (The Balfour Declaration 1917), according to his official...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Friday denied his country had sent Hezbollah militants to fight in Syria, saying the Tehran-backed Shiite extremist group was making its own decisions. And he told a gathering at the World Economic Forum that he believed the Syrian conflict...