Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced on Wednesday that another round of high-level meetings between Russia and Syria is planned for next week. "Next week, we are scheduled to hold high-level contacts with our Syrian colleagues. We will provide further details later," Lavrov said...

Syria’s tiny Jewish community said they held their first group prayer in decades Wednesday, in a synagogue in Damascus’s Old City, expressing joy at the long-awaited return to public worship. In the Faranj synagogue, Syrian-American Rabbi Yusuf Hamra led the prayer for the first time...

Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met Iran's president and supreme leader as he arrived in Tehran on Wednesday for an official visit. The emir was welcomed at Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport by Iranian Energy Minister Abbas Aliabadi and other senior officials, his office,...

Seven civilians, including a woman and a child, were killed Thursday when leftover munitions exploded inside a house in northwest Syria, a war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported the deadly blast a day after another organization said two-thirds of Syrians risked...