Russia on Friday blocked a US-drafted UN Security Council statement condemning the Syrian government's increasing military offensive on Aleppo, diplomats said. The move heightened diplomatic tensions ahead of a key Russia-US-UN meeting in Geneva on Friday on...

    The commander of Syria's main Western-backed rebel group has urged all opposition fighters to join ranks in the struggle against President Bashar Assad's forces, pledging to do everything he can to stave off rebel infighting. In remarks broadcast Friday...

Al-Qaeda's branch in Syria will not accept any results that come from peace talks next month to end the civil war, its chief said in an Al-Jazeera television interview to be aired Thursday. "We will not recognise any results that come out of the Geneva 2 conference," Al-Jazeera's...

UN-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi on Thursday demanded the release of leading Syrian women's rights campaigner Razan Zeitouneh and three fellow activists, abducted last week by unknown kidnappers. "We have all got to demand that they be released," Brahimi told activists from...