Reports of Christians dying for their faith almost doubled between 2012 and 2013, with more Christians martyred in Syria last year than the worldwide total for 2012. Open Doors, a non-denominational group that supports persecuted Christians, said Wednesday that 2,123 Christians were...

  Disparate Syrian opposition groups, including several Islamist rebel representatives, met for the first time in the Spanish city of Cordoba to seek common ground ahead of peace talks with President Bashar al-Assad’s government later this month. After nearly three...

  A massive car bomb killed 18 people in the village of Kafat in Syria’s central Hama province on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights NGO said. The monitoring group said women and children were among the dead in the blast, which also killed members of...

US Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to France and Kuwait from Jan 11 to 15 ahead of a key peace conference on Syrian crisis, the State Department said Wednesday. In Paris, the top US envoy will attend a ministerial meeting of the London 11, a group of countries backing the...