A week of talks between the Syrian regime and the opposition national coalition in Geneva ended on Friday without and tangible results, Syrian Foreign Minister  said. “I regret to tell you that we have not reached tangible results during this week,” Walid...

A contentious week-long first round of Syrian peace talks ended on Friday with no progress towards ending the civil war and the government delegation unable to say whether it will return for the next round in 10 days. U.N. mediator Lakhdar Brahimi, who has tirelessly pursued a...

  The mother of the British doctor Abbas Khan who died in Syrian government custody last month did not only confront the Syrian delegation in Geneva screaming: “Why did you kill my son?” but she revealed the harrowing answers she purportedly received. In one...

  A first round of peace talks on Syria wraps up Friday with both sides in entrenched positions and the U.N. mediator expressing frustration that it had not even been possible to get agreement for an aid convoy to enter the besieged city of Homs. After a week of talks...