A Syrian cease-fire could be in place within weeks, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday. Speaking in an interview with U.S. news channel CNN, Kerry said a growing coalition including Russia and Iran “gives us an opportunity to perhaps get a ceasefire in place within the next three,...

Turkey’s president on Tuesday officially asked Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to form a new government following the Nov. 1 general election. “Mr. President accepted Konya deputy and Chairman of the Justice and Development Party Ahmet Davutoglu at the presidential complex and has tasked him to...

Syria will only share intelligence information with France if Paris changes its policies in the region, President Bashar Assad said in an interview with French magazine Valeurs Actuelles. "If the French government is not serious in its fight against terrorism, we will not waste our time...

(Reuters)- Russia said on Tuesday it had stepped up airstrikes against Islamist militants in Syria with long-range bombers and cruise missiles after the Kremlin said it wanted retribution for those responsible for blowing up a Russian airliner over Egypt. President Vladimir Putin, visiting the...

The annual birth rate in Syria has fallen by more than half since the civil war broke out in 2011, Al-Watan newspaper reported Tuesday. Salah al-Sheikha, dean of Damascus University's faculty of medicine, told the newspaper that before the war Syria recorded around 500,000 births per year....

The Russian plane that crashed in Egypt on Oct. 31, killing all 224 passengers and crew, was brought down by a bomb, the Russian security chief said late Monday. According to Alexander Bortnikov, head of Russia’s FSB security service, a bomb downed the plane.  The plane...

A young refugee boy has interrupted a CNN live broadcast to provide a touch of light-hearted humanity to the heavy events that have unfolded since Saturday's terrorist attack in Paris. Social media and viewers swooned over CNN journalist Arwa Damon and her impromptu exchange with a smiling...

(The Independent)- A man has been detained in Serbia after he was found carrying a Syrian passport matching the same details as one found near the body of one of the Paris suicide bombers. The document also carried the details of 25-year-old Almohammad Ahmad but with a different photograph...

(Naharnet)- Al-Qaeda's Syria branch al-Nusra Front has demanded control over two regime-held Syrian towns near Lebanon and the release of five women from Lebanese jails in return for freeing the captive Lebanese servicemen, a spokesman for the hostages' families said on Monday. “Al-Nusra's...

France's President Francois Hollande called on the United States and Russia on Monday to join a global coalition to destroy Islamic State following the attacks in Paris, and hours later French fighter jets launched fresh strikes on targets in Syria. "France is at war," Hollande...

Russia told the United Nations on Monday it was "outraged" by allegations that it had killed civilians in Syria and destroyed civilian infrastructure as a U.S.-based rights group accused Moscow's air force of bombing 10 medical facilities in October. Russia launched air strikes...

Yemen's exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi returned to the southern port city of Aden on Tuesday to rally forces loyal to him in the country's civil war and oversee a campaign to retake the city of Taiz, a presidency official said. It was not immediately clear how long Hadi...

(BBC)- The Syrian passport found at the scene of one of the Paris attacks is causing a strong reaction among Syrians online, some of whom fear the consequences in Western policy. One of the seven people named by French officials as suspected perpetrators of the deadly Paris attacks is...

Britain says the United Nations Security Council is "going to take action immediately now" to draw up a council resolution for a U.N.-administered cease fire enforcement mechanism in Syria. That follows Saturday's meeting in Vienna at which foreign ministers of nearly 20 countries agreed to...

(Reuters)- Facebook Inc. vowed Monday to turn on its "Safety Check" feature more often during disasters in response to growing criticism that it only enabled the function after the attacks in Paris. In the wake of the deadliest attack on Europe in over a decade that killed at least 129 people...

Syrians living under ISIS rule in its de facto capital of Raqqa fear they will pay the price for the group's Paris attacks with more airstrikes. The town, already being bombed by Russia and a U.S.-led alliance, came under heavy French air raids in the immediate aftermath of the killings in...

Five U.S. governors Monday said they would not allow Syrian refugees to be settled in their states, joining Alabama and Michigan and contending it is too dangerous to let in people from that war-torn country following Friday's deadly Paris attacks. Republican Governors Greg Abbott of Texas,...

An alliance of Kurdish and Arab forces fighting ISIS in northeast Syria has driven the jihadists out of nearly 200 villages, its spokesman told reporters Monday. Syrian Democratic Forces spokesman Talal Ali Sello said at a press conference that "between Oct. 30 and Nov. 13, an area...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's al Qaeda offshoot, the Nusra Front, backed by rebel factions on Monday has thwarted regime attack on Tal Hadya town in the southern countryside of Aleppo province. Zaman Al Wasl reporter said rebels and jihadist groups have inflicted heavy losses on regime troops and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian President Vladimir Putin has told Bashar Assad to either leave office and make room for a transitional government or be forced out, Israeli officials told an Israeli daily. According to The Times of Israel, Putin delivered his ultimatum at a meeting between the two in...