With estimates of up to 11,000 foreign fighters in Syria, Western powers are increasingly worried about the potential national security threat posed by returning fighters. But in a country more than 14,000 kilometres from the frontline, Syria's civil war is also playing out in...

Syria's opposition leader met Russia's top diplomat on Tuesday in a bid to persuade Moscow to pressure Damascus to agree to a transitional government for the war-scarred nation. The talks between Syrian National Coalition chief Ahmad Jarba and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov came after...

  Deputy U.N. mediator on Syria Nasser al-Kidwa told U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday that he was resigning, after repeated calls from the Syrian government for him to be removed. United Nations confirmedKidwa's “intention to leave his current position,...

  King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia ordered on Monday the punishment of citizens found guilty of fighting in conflicts outside the kingdom with imprisonment ranging between three to 20 years. Members of extremist religious groups and anyone found guilty of...