Syria’s warring sides are not sitting in the same room in the Geneva peace talks despite efforts by U.N. mediator Lakhdar Brahimi to bring them together. Instead Brahimi is meeting with representatives of President Bashar al-Assad’s government at 11:00 a.m. (1000 GMT) and will meet...

Sheikh Abdullah al-Mouheisni, the powerful commander in the State of Iraq and The Levant revealed more information over the kidnapping case of Hajji Baker’s wife who had been arrested by Islamists rebels week ago. Mouheisni said via social media that the women with her children...

  Nearly 1,400 people have been killed in Syria since clashes between rebel forces and the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant  (ISIL) erupted this month, AFP reported. “The number of people killed in fighting between the Islamic State of Iraq and the...

The moment the eyes of the warring Syrian delegations met in Switzerland was historic. But peace talks between representatives from Syria’s government and opposition could still drag on for weeks, if not months. During the preliminary session at the Fairmont Le Montreux Palace on the...