Jordan's mediation has succeeded in getting Syrian rebel negotiators back to the table with Russian officers over a final deal that ends the fighting and brings state control over Daraa province, a Syrian opposition spokesman said. Ibrahim al Jabawi said the two sides were expected to...

Dark clouds of smoke rose over Syrian rebel-held areas near the border with Jordan on Thursday as Bashar Assad's Russian allies unleashed heavy air strikes and regime forces launched ground assaults. Assad aims to recapture the entire southwest including the frontiers with the...

Russian air strikes against rebels in southern Daraa province resumed Wednesday, residents and an activist group said, after a rebel said talks to restore regime rule there peacefully had failed. The air strikes targeted the towns of Tafas, northwest of the provincial capital Daraa, and...

The European Union on Wednesday slammed attacks by the Bashar al-Assad regime and its allies on opposition-held Daraa province in southwestern Syria. "Such attacks are clear violations of international law and international humanitarian law that also put at risk any progress in Geneva...