The EU said Wednesday it had agreed on how to finance a three billion euro ($3.3 billion) deal to aid Syrian refugees in Turkey, in exchange for Ankara's help stemming the flow of migrants, after resolving a dispute with Italy. Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi had stalled on...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Reuters)- The Levant Front rebel group operating in northern Aleppo province said the breaking of the three-year-old siege of the two Shiite villages came only after more than 500 raids by Russian airplanes, Reuters said. The two towns of Nubl and Zahraa, with an estimated...

A United Nations envoy halted his attempts to conduct Syrian peace talks on Wednesday after the army, backed by Russian air strikes, advanced against rebel forces north of Aleppo, choking opposition supply lines from Turkey to the city. Staffan de Mistura announced a three-week...

The United Nations struggled to save Syrian peace talks as Damascus and its Russian allies seized territory in fierce fighting and rifts widened among embattled rebel factions. The Syrian army said on Wednesday its forces had broken through rebel defenses to reach two Shi'ite...