International powers are unlikely to meet their goal of convening peace talks on  Syria  in Geneva next month as differences emerge between Washington and Moscow over opposition representation, Arab and Western officials said. Failure of the main Syrian National Coalition to...

  Syrian intelligence agents have arrested at least 230 men out of a group of civilians who were evacuated this week from a Damascus suburb besieged by President Bashar al-Assad's forces under a rare deal with rebels, activists said on Thursday, according to Reuters. The deal had...

As cannons thundered and mortar shells exploded nearby, the young Syrian woman in a slinky dark dress and stylish bob performed a song by pop star Adele, taking refuge behind a microphone from the civil war raging outside. Performing with a guitarist at a cafe in the heart of the historic...

Intent on supplying his government with arms, oil and food, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has turned to Russian  banks  to access world markets , and the lenders could open more doors to him, despite a risk of isolation from the U.S. banking system. U.S. sanctions...