Syria's government and opposition figures were expected to respond Wednesday to a "surprise" U.N. proposal on mapping a way to a new constitution, the second day of renewed peace talks in Geneva. The sixth round of U.N.-backed negotiations is the latest drive to bring a political solution to...

( The New Arab )- The United States has reiterated that the al-Qaeda-linked Syrian rebel alliance Hayat Tahrir al-Sham [HTS] is a terrorist group after media reports emerged, claiming the extremists had evaded the classification. The US embassy in Syria confirmed on its official Twitter feed on...

A new round of Syria peace talks opened Tuesday in Geneva as the Damascus regime fiercely denied it used a prison crematorium to hide evidence of thousands of murdered detainees. Five previous rounds of UN-backed negotiations have failed to yield a political solution to the raging six-year...

North Korea's missile program is progressing faster than expected, South Korea's defense minister said on Tuesday, after the UN Security Council demanded the North halt all nuclear and ballistic missile tests and condemned Sunday's test-launch. Han Min-koo told South Korea's parliament the...