At least 47 people, including nine children, have died in Russia air strikes on a town in eastern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday. The raids on Khasham near the city of Deir Ezzor on Saturday were among a series of strikes that also hit two other town and others...

Senior Saudi and Iranian figures clashed behind closed doors at a private meeting convened by the World Economic Forum in Davos this week to try to promote peace in Syria, participants said. The barbed exchange between Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif at an...

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Saturday that the United States and Turkey were prepared for a military solution against Islamic State in Syria should the Syrian government and rebels fail to reach a political settlement. The latest round of Syria peace talks are planned...

Syrian armed rebel groups said on Saturday they held the Syrian government and Russia responsible for any failure of peace talks to end the country's civil war, even before negotiations due to start in Geneva next week. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he was confident the talks set for...