Syria’s deputy foreign minister, Fayssal Mekdad, said Tuesday that his government aimed to negotiate an end to the country’s civil war by talking with a broad range of Syrians, from religious and community leaders to peaceful opposition groups, dismissing the main Western-backed exile...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told a German magazine he would not negotiate with rebels until they laid down their arms, and said he was still considering whether to run for office again next year. In an extensive interview with Der Spiegel, Assad said he did not believe it was...

Sixteen-year-old Mohammad al Zeibaa lost his entire family in the sarin gas attack east of Damascus six weeks ago, surviving the world's deadliest chemical weapons strike in a quarter century only because he was out working a hospital night shift. Mohammad's father, who rushed to the...

A mother and her twin girls have been stabbed by knifes until death by the Assad-backed militia, Shabiha, in Qabo area, when a family of four were heading Lebanon two days ago, their bodies were found in the military hospital of Homs, the Syrian Network for Human Rights reported...