"Terrorism" is the subject of Thursday's morning session of the Syria peace talks in Geneva now in its seventh day.  Lakhdar Brahimi, joint special envoy of the UN and the Arab League and the delegations from Syrian regime are also expected to...

  A U.N. convoy carrying food for the people of the old Syrian city of Homs is waiting to be allowed passage, as residents plead for the government to end a siege that's been starving them for nearly 600 days. "Our trucks are loaded and ready to go in as soon as all...

    Journalists and activists loyal to opposing sides of Syria’s civil war have managed something the negotiators at this peace conference haven’t – talking to each other. Inside the wood-paneled negotiating room at the United Nations’ “Geneva II” talks,...

Not so long ago Noura al-Ameer was being beaten and subjected to electric shocks in a Syrian prison. Today, she sits across from the regime that put her there, hoping diplomacy can end her country's suffering. "It was as if I was seeing the faces of the killers, the bombers, the...