MOSCOW (Reuters) - United Nations Syria mediator Staffan de Mistura will head a new constitutional commission that will be set up at a peace conference in Russia this week, the Interfax news agency reported on Monday, citing official documents. Russia is hosting a two-day Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 13 people, including women and children, were killed on Sunday in Russian airstrikes hit the northern province of Idlib, Civil Defense agency said. Eight civilians, including family members and pregnant woman, have been killed in the town of Saraqeb,...

Police blocked dozens of women from attending a football match Sunday in the Gaza Strip, in what activists said they hoped would have been the first such permission under Hamas' rule. Authorities in the Palestinian enclave run by the Hamas movement told the women they had orders not to...

Heavy fighting resumed in Syria's Eastern Ghouta Sunday after a short period of relative calm following reports that a cease-fire had been agreed there late Friday, a war monitor and pro-government media sources said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war...