14/02/2014

  A car bomb, outside a mosque in southern Syria, killed dozens of people on Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. told AFP. At least 33 people, including 12 rebel fighters, were killed when the car blew up in…

Beirut — Syrian warplanes carried out 20 air strikes against the strategic rebel-held Yabrud area near Damascus on Wednesday, as the army escalated a campaign there, activists and a monitoring group said. Troops meanwhile captured…

Geneva — Russia must push Damascus to seriously engage in peace talks in Geneva, a US official said Friday as a second negotiation round appeared to be fizzling out with no sign of progress. "We think that Russia has a responsibility to…

A new round of U.N.-brokered peace talks between Syria’s government and the opposition has made no progress, Faisal Mokdad, the country’s deputy foreign minister said Friday, according to Agence France-Presse. “We deeply regret that this…

A car bomb killed at least 18 people a town in southern Syria on Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. The bomb went off near a mosque in the town of al-Yadouda near the border with Jordan, Rami Abdulrahman, director of…

International mediator Lakhdar Brahimi plans to take Syrian peace talks into a third round, an opposition official said on Friday, as negotiations neared the end of a second week with no sign of progress. "Brahimi just told us the talks…

BEIRUT: An Al-Qaeda splinter group in Syria executed at least 13 people including relatives of fighters from rival rebel groups before withdrawing from a town near Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday. The…

The global chemical arms watchdog said Friday it has chosen two US and Finnish companies to help destroy Syria's chemical arsenal as part of an ambitious plan that has suffered a string of setbacks. The Organisation for the Prohibition…

Geneva, Feb. 14 (BNA ) -- Russia and the United States reaffirmed their support to the ongoing second round of Geneva II conference on Syria and assured that they would help to push forward the stalled peace talks, said UN-Arab League…