AMMAN: A large bloc supported by Qatar that left Syria's opposition National Coalition has reversed its decision and wants to rejoin, setting the scene for...
AMMAN: Air raids on rebel-held towns across Syria killed 26 people on Monday, activists said, two days after the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution...
AMMAN: The Western-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) has sacked its leader after he fell out with the Saudi-supported head of the moderate opposition to President...
GENEVA: Peace talks between the Syrian government and opposition are not making much progress, international mediator Lakhdar Brahimi said on Tuesday after a...
GENEVA: Mediator Lakhdar Brahimi will meet representatives of the warring sides in Syria separately for the first few days of a second round of talks that...
GENEVA/BEIRUT: A second round of Syria peace talks got off to a shaky start on Monday with the international mediator meeting the two sides separately after...
GENEVA: Deputy mediator Nasser al-Kidwa has left the team running peace talks aimed at ending the war in Syria, diplomatic sources said on Monday, after...
GENEVA: A contentious week-long first round of Syrian peace talks ended on Friday with no progress towards ending the civil war and the government delegation...
GENEVA: 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 he had...
GENEVA: Opposing sides in Syria's civil war stood together in silence to honour victims of the three year conflict on Thursday, but week-old peace talks were...
GENEVA: International mediator Lakhdar Brahimi said on Wednesday that he does not expect to achieve anything substantive in the first round of Syria talks...
GENEVA: Talks aimed at ending the war in Syria took a first tentative step forward on Wednesday as both sides agreed to use the same document as the basis of...
GENEVA: The Syrian government came under pressure on Monday to allow aid trucks into the besieged rebel city of Homs as negotiators sought to keep peace talks...
GENEVA: The Syrian government offered to let women and children leave the besieged city of Homs Sunday as negotiators from the warring sides discussed...
GENEVA: Syria's first peace talks came close to collapsing before they began on Friday, with the opposition refusing to meet President Bashar Assad's...
AMMAN: Rivalry between Qatar and Saudi Arabia has fuelled wrangling within the Syrian opposition that threatens to prevent a united rebel delegation attending...
AMMAN: Armed with machine guns, black-clad Al-Qaeda fighters drove their pickups calmly into the northern Syrian town and took over its imposing Agriculture...
AMMAN: Syrian government forces backed by foreign Shiite militants advanced on rebels in the northern city of Aleppo Tuesday, bent on recapturing districts...
ISTANBUL/AMMAN: The Syrian National Coalition named a provisional government for rebel-held areas on Tuesday, despite U.S. misgivings, members of the...
AMMAN: Syrian army and Shi'ite Muslim fighters attacked Sunni rebel areas in southern Damascus on Sunday in an offensive aimed at breaking resistance to...
AMMAN: Kurdish militants sought to consolidate their control of an oil-producing region in northeastern Syria on Sunday after seizing a border crossing with...
AMMAN: The Syrian opposition feels badly let down by Washington’s decision to do a deal with Moscow to eliminate Bashar Assad’s chemical weapons...
ISTANBUL: The head of Syria’s new provisional government pledged Sunday to curb the influence of Al-Qaeda militants he said exploited the...
ISTANBUL: The opposition Syrian National Coalition elected a moderate Islamist as provisional prime minister on Saturday, hoping to avoid being sidelined as...
AMMAN: Syrian warplanes bombed rebel suburbs of Damascus on Tuesday for the first time in three weeks, in an offensive that opposition activists said showed...