German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged Russia to use its influence over the Syrian regime to stop attacks against civilians and work towards a political solution, but also underlined that al-Assad cannot have a political future in the country. "Al-Assad has to stop hitting its own people...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad had told him he was ready to talk to armed opposition groups if they are genuinely committed to dialogue and to combating Islamic State. Speaking a day after Assad made a surprise visit to Moscow for...

The Syrian regime and Russian warplanes have carried out more than 40 raids in the northern countryside of Homs city on Thursday, local activists said. The regime troops backed by fighters from Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah have launched a series of ground offensives western and northwestern...

Partly burned and still abandoned, the high-walled villas that once housed the U.S. consulate compound in the Libyan city of Benghazi now sit on a frontline of a nation at war with itself. Three years after militants killed U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other...