Nearly 50 Syrian women came together from within and outside Syria at a conference, facilitated by UN Women, from 11 to 13 January 2014 in Geneva to appeal for peace, to call for a voice in the ongoing political negotiations on their country -- particularly during the "Geneva II" peace...

A first round of peace talks on Syria wraps up Friday with both sides in entrenched positions and the U.N. mediator expressing frustration that it had not even been possible to get agreement for an aid convoy to enter the besieged city of Homs. After a week of talks at the United...

  The Lebanese army has seized a vehicle at a checkpoint between the Syria-Lebanon border near the northeastern Lebanese town of Arsal. Three men of unknown nationality were arrested after it was allegedly discovered that their car was full of arms and ammunition....

  They arrived with bulldozers and ordered him to leave. When the Syrian restaurant owner asked why, he was threatened with detention. The security forces that had arrived unannounced that morning denied him permission to remove anything from the shop his...