Syria's Aleppo international airport, closed for a year because of fighting, reopened Wednesday with the landing of a civilian aircraft, state media reported. "A first airplane landed at Aleppo's international airport, after the Syrian army secured the outskirts," state...

  A government air strike killed 10 people in a rebel-held neighborhood of Syria’s main northern city Aleppo on Tuesday, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported that some fighters of the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and The...

Syria's government and its enemies came face to face on Wednesday for the first time as a peace conference began in Switzerland which world powers hope can at least start a process to end three years of civil war. There was immediate evidence of sharp differences, as U.S. Secretary...

  Democratic Union Party (PYD)  declared an autonomous provincial government in the country’s northern territory on Tuesday, according to reports. The move comes ahead of the Geneva 2 peace talks, where they will not have direct representation. A municipal council will...