Syria's warring sides met briefly together in the same room on Saturday for the first time since peace talks started in Geneva, the U.N. said. U.N. mediator Lakhdar Brahimi's spokeswoman confirmed Saturday morning that he and the two sides were meeting in the same...

A Syrian monitoring group said Friday it has documented the deaths of 63 people, including women and children, in the besieged Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus because of food and medical shortages, AFP reported. Yarmuk in southern Damascus has been under a choking army...

Sheikh Abdullah al-Mouheisni, the powerful commander in the State of Iraq and The Levant revealed more information over the kidnapping case of Hajji Baker’s wife who had been arrested by Islamists rebels week ago. Mouheisni said via social media that the women with her children...

  Nearly 1,400 people have been killed in Syria since clashes between rebel forces and the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant  (ISIL) erupted this month, AFP reported. “The number of people killed in fighting between the Islamic State of Iraq and the...