Syria's envoy to the United Nations says it's time for the United States and other Western powers to accept that President Bashar al-Assad is here to stay, and to abandon what he suggested was a failed strategy of trying to split the Middle East into sectarian enclaves....

 About 8000 families in the rebel-held city of Erbin near Damascus have received food baskets distributed by the local council, activists said Friday. The aid, which included basic food staples, came in response to a charity campaign to help thousands of locals and...

 The United Nations Security Council condemned the use of chlorine as a weapon in Syria and threatened to take action if such arms are used again in the conflict, which is now in its fourth year, but didn't lay blame for previous chlorine attacks. The 15-member...

(Anadolu Agency)- The Kurdish population of Kobani is welcome in Turkey until the war-torn Syrian town of Kobani is rebuilt, the wife of the Turkish president has said. Emine Erdogan was participating Thursday in the inauguration of Suruc tent city, in Sanliurfa, south-eastern...