Disparate Syrian opposition groups, including several Islamist rebel representatives, met for the first time in the Spanish city of Cordoba to seek common ground ahead of peace talks with President Bashar al-Assad’s government later this month. After nearly three...

  A massive car bomb killed 18 people in the village of Kafat in Syria’s central Hama province on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights NGO said. The monitoring group said women and children were among the dead in the blast, which also killed members of...

Russia blocked a British-drafted UN Security Council statement condemning the Syrian government attacks on the city of Aleppo, diplomats said. It was the second time in a month that Russia objected to a western bid to slam President Bashar al-Assad's air assault against Syria's biggest...

The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has sent Syrian main opposition group, National Coalition an invitation to attend the international conference on Syria which will be held in Montreux, west Switzerland on 22 January. Zaman Alwasl has obtaind a copy of the invitation...