Syria is ready to take part in peace talks in Geneva and hopes that the dialogue will help it form a national unity government, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said on Thursday during a visit to Beijing. The U.N. Security Council last Friday unanimously approved a...

A close adviser to Syrian President Bashar al Assad said on Wednesday Damascus was ready to join U.N.-sponsored peace talks with its position bolstered by both Russian backing and the West's retreat from a hardline anti-Assad approach. Bouthaina Shaaban said her government...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Riad Hijab, the newly-appointed Syrian opposition's coordinator for Syria future talks and  former prime minister who defected in August 2012, is facing 4 arrest warrants issued by the regime's security services, according to the leaked archive...

Amnesty International said on Wednesday that nearly three months of Russian air raids in Syria have killed hundreds of civilians, many in targeted strikes that could constitute war crimes. Some strikes "appear to have directly attacked civilians or civilian objects by striking...