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BEIRUT — The leader of al Qaeda called on rival Islamic groups in Syria to end their infighting and focus on battling President Bashar Assad’s forces in a recording released Thursday. The call by Ayman al-Zawahri came as activists said…

(Reuters) - Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is not ready to step down yet to make way for a transition government, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday. "Obviously he is not ready at this point in time," Kerry said in…

Syria’s two warring sides are prepared to discuss improving access for aid deliveries, prisoner swaps and local ceasefires, U.N. mediator Lakhdar Brahimi said on Wednesday after the first day of peace talks aimed at ending the Syrian…

Syria’s opposition leader laid out his demands for talks on ending his country’s civil war, calling for the creation of a transitional government that does not include President Bashar al-Assad. Ahmed Jarba told reporters in Geneva,…

World Bulletin / News Desk Failure of Assad to negotiate on a transitional government could result in him facing war crimes charges at the ICC (International Criminal Court) Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told CNN's…

Syria’s warring sides are not sitting in the same room in the Geneva peace talks despite efforts by U.N. mediator Lakhdar Brahimi to bring them together. Instead Brahimi is meeting with representatives of President Bashar al-Assad’s…

BEIRUT: Almost 1,400 people have been killed in Syria since clashes between rebel forces and the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) erupted last month, activists said Thursday. The 20 days of violence included executions…

There is clear evidence that Syria has systematically tortured and executed about 11,000 detainees since the start of the uprising, a report by three former war crimes prosecutors says. The investigators examined thousands of images of…

Spending a winter living in a tent is something most people have never done, let alone even considered. But it is something that Halim Sbenati has spent a lot of time thinking about. In particular, the estimated 2.3 million Syrians who…

BEIRUT — Syria's main, Western-backed opposition threatened on Monday to sit out a peace conference this week aimed at ending the country's crippling civil war, criticizing the last-minute decision to invite Iran and throwing months of…