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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…

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- A message from the al-Qaida cell that took credit for a November attack on the Iranian Embassy in Beirut warns Hezbollah of more attacks to come. Abdallah Azzam Brigades, an al-Qaida-affiliated group,…

Geneva: At least 51 people, including 13 rebels, died in a single day of Syrian government air strikes and shelling of opposition-controlled districts of Aleppo, activists said on Thursday as international mediators were trying to salvage…

HOMS, Syria — They appeared like a defeated army, gray blankets draping their shoulders, baggy clothes flowing over withered frames, faces gaunt and exhausted. At least half a dozen had lost limbs; others arrived in wheelchairs and on…