Damascus aims to secure Syria's border with Turkey and recapture the city of Aleppo with its latest military offensive, a top adviser to Bashar al-Assad said on Tuesday. In an interview in her Damascus office, Bouthaina Shaaban held out little hope for diplomatic efforts to end...

Pope Francis Sunday urged the world community to make every effort to revive the Syrian peace talks and appealed for unstinting generosity for civilians fleeing the conflict. "I appeal to the international community to spare no effort to urgently bring parties back to the negotiating table,"...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 women and children have been killed Tuesday in Russian air strikes on a Turkmen-dominated village in the northern countryside of Homs, medics told Zaman al-Wasl. In what seemed a deliberate Russian strikes on al-Burj village to provoke Turkey after reports of new...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Five rebel groups in central provinces of Homs and Hama have formed joint operations room to fight regime troops who wage major attack on the southern countryside of Hama, activists said on Monday.   For over a month, regime forces backed by Russian jets have been...