Russia blocked a British-drafted UN Security Council statement condemning the Syrian government attacks on the city of Aleppo, diplomats said. It was the second time in a month that Russia objected to a western bid to slam President Bashar al-Assad's air assault against Syria's biggest...

The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has sent Syrian main opposition group, National Coalition an invitation to attend the international conference on Syria which will be held in Montreux, west Switzerland on 22 January. Zaman Alwasl has obtaind a copy of the invitation...

Britain has accepted 1,500 asylum seekers from Syria in the past year, the Deputy Prime Minister has disclosed. The government has been criticised by politicians including Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, for refusing to admit Syrian refugees to Britain. However,...

  The headquarters of al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), in the main northern city of Aleppo has been seized by fighters from several Syrian rebel brigades. “Fighters from several Islamist rebel brigades took control of the...