The prospects for a new round of Syria peace talks should be clearer after the U.N. Security Council discusses options on June 29, U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura told reporters on Thursday. De Mistura said he had accompanied U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last week to St Petersburg,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian activists called on German authorities to grant wounded journalist Khaled al-Issa a medical visa after critical injury he sustained last week with fellow journalist. Photojournalist al-Issa with prominent journalist Hadi al-Abdallah were targeted by an IED planted at...

U.S.-backed Syrian forces fought Islamic State militants on Thursday inside the city of Manbij for the first time since they laid siege to the militant stronghold near the Turkish border, a monitor said. The British-based Observatory for Human Rights said heavy clashes were taking place in...

Activists and Syrian state media are reporting that shelling and airstrikes in different neighborhoods of the divided northern city of Aleppo have killed at least eight civilians. Syria's state news agency SANA said Thursday four people were killed and four others wounded when rocket shells...