U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has invited Iran to participate in upcoming peace talks on Syria, a move that immediately angered the opposition. The invitation to this week's opening-day session of the so-called Geneva 2 came as he held a surprise news conference...

Iran has called on participants at next week's international peace conference on Syria to adopt a "realistic view" and decision that will not embolden jihadist fighters, media reports said Sunday. More than 35 countries will gather in the Swiss cities of Montreux and Geneva from...

A powerful alliance of Syrian Islamist rebels rejected upcoming peace talks on Sunday, meaning that even if the talks reach an unlikely breakthrough in the three year old civil war, it will be harder to implement it on the ground. Syria's main political opposition group in exile, the...

Syrian state media dismissed as "not accurate" a report by news agency Interfax that President Bashar al-Assad told visiting Russian parliamentarians he has no intention of giving up power and the issue is not up for discussion. Assad was quoted as telling the visitors days ahead of...