A Syrian cease-fire could be in place within weeks, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday. Speaking in an interview with U.S. news channel CNN, Kerry said a growing coalition including Russia and Iran “gives us an opportunity to perhaps get a ceasefire in place within the next...

(Reuters)- Russia said on Tuesday it had stepped up airstrikes against Islamist militants in Syria with long-range bombers and cruise missiles after the Kremlin said it wanted retribution for those responsible for blowing up a Russian airliner over Egypt. President Vladimir Putin, visiting the...

The annual birth rate in Syria has fallen by more than half since the civil war broke out in 2011, Al-Watan newspaper reported Tuesday. Salah al-Sheikha, dean of Damascus University's faculty of medicine, told the newspaper that before the war Syria recorded around 500,000 births per year....

The Russian plane that crashed in Egypt on Oct. 31, killing all 224 passengers and crew, was brought down by a bomb, the Russian security chief said late Monday. According to Alexander Bortnikov, head of Russia’s FSB security service, a bomb downed the plane.  The plane...