Iraq: Syria's Kurds will send two delegations to upcoming peace talks, one with the opposition coalition and another with representatives of President Bashar al-Assad, opposition leader Ahmed Jarba said Friday. "The Kurds will participate in the Geneva meeting in two...

  Negotiators have failed to reach an agreement on whether Iran should be invited to Syria peace talks in Geneva next month, U.N. and Arab League envoy on Syria Lakhdar Brahimi said Friday. Brahimi said the delegations to the Geneva 2 conference have been agreed upon...

Assad forces pounded Syrian mosque in the embattled Al Wa'er neighborhood of Homs during Friday's prayer (Muslim's weekly prayer), killing the mosque Imam and unknown number of worshipers, activists reported. Sheikh Safwan Masharekah, Al Omari Mosque’s Imam, had been killed...

  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...