(Foreign Policy)- Its title is prosaic and its content dry, but the stark statistics in the U.N.’s annual summary of relief programs tell the story of Syria’s humanitarian nightmare. This is a country on life support: 13.6 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, Syrians...

The head of the Saudi-backed Syrian opposition said Thursday his group would not attend UN-brokered peace talks in Geneva until an agreement was reached on aid entering besieged towns. "The opposition is prepared to go to Geneva if these measures are taken," Riad Hijab, coordinator of the High...

The powerful Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and its local allies have drawn up plans for a major attack to seize the final stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border held by ISIS fighters, a YPG source familiar with the plan said Thursday. Such an offensive could deprive ISIS fighters of a logistical...

Russia said Thursday it wanted to hold an international meeting on Syria -- including key players from the West and the Middle East -- in Munich next month. "There is an agreement in principle between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Secretary of State John Kerry, and now we will...