A Syrian military offensive backed by heavy Russian air strikes threatened to cut critical rebel supply lines into the northern city of Aleppo on Tuesday, while the warring sides said peace talks had not started despite a U.N. statement they had. U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura...

The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State aims this year to recapture Iraq’s second city Mosul, working with Iraqi government forces, and drive the jihadis out of Raqqa, their stronghold in northeast Syria, Arab and Western officials say. If it succeeds, the coalition will...

Writing by Ethar Abdulhaq; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Bashar Jaafari, the Permanent Representative of the Syrian regime to the United Nations, has been dubbed “the Lion of Geneva Negotiations” by regime loyalist due to his eagerness to defend the Syrian regime and adopting...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is undermining international efforts to end the Syrian civil war by bombing opponents of Islamic State in an attempt to bolster Bashar al-Assad, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Monday. In a clear sign of frustration with the Kremlin, Hammond...