Syria's opposition gathered in Istanbul on Friday to vote on whether to attend peace talks next week with President Bashar al-Assad's government, under heavy pressure from Western backers to endorse negotiations. With just five days to go, the opposition National Coalition remains...

The Syrian government, preparing for peace talks with rebels next week, handed the Russian co-sponsors of the conference a proposal on Friday for a local ceasefire and an exchange of prisoners. There was no immediate response from President Bashar al-Assad's opponents, whose very...

    A deadly rocket attack targeted the eastern Beqaa town of Arsal on Friday morning, killing at least seven people “Seven people have been killed and 15 others injured in the rocket attack on Arsal,” Lebanon’s state National News Agency reported....

  Islamist rebels have seized Base 46, last headquarters for the State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL) in western countryside of Aleppo, Islamic Front sources told Zaman Alwasl. The former regular army base was under rebels’ control before expelling them by...