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GENEVA — The U.N.-Arab League's Syria envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is meeting with U.S. and Russian delegations to try to agree which nations should be invited to Syria peace talks in Geneva next month. Russian Deputy Foreign Ministers…

BEIRUT: A rebel commander has frozen to death in the bitter cold brought by a snowstorm that has swept Syria this week, a monitoring group said Saturday.   "The body of a rebel commander who was on his way from (the northwestern…

A Danish-led task force was being readied in Cyprus on Saturday to remove the first part of Syria's deadly chemical stockpile, due before the end of this year. Denmark and Norway plan to use two cargo vessels to transport the weapons out…

Homs province: The bodies of 2 young men were found after they were lost in the snow storm , they were heading from the Houla area to the village of Hurbinafseh.

Reef Dimashq: 12 bodies were found outside the city of Adra, activists accuse regime forces.

Thirteen international news organizations, including the BBC, The Associated Press and The New York Times, have written a letter to the armed opposition in Syria asking for assurances that their journalists will not be abducted, as my…

ISTANBUL (AP) — A U.S. Embassy official in the Turkish capital says the United States is suspending all non-lethal assistance destined for the opposition in northern Syria because of rebel infighting. The decision comes days after fighters…

Attacks on Kurds continue. ISIS forcibly displace Syrian Kurdish civilians from their homes in the town of Tal Abyad. Activists from Tal Abyad city have reported that the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) forcibly evicted 15…

Reef Dimashq: Islamist rebel groups attacked regime positions and the police branch in the town of Adra al-Ummaliya this morning. Several members of the police branch were killed and clashes continue in the town, regime forces fire…

Spanish newspaper El Mundo says one of its reporters and a freelance photographer are being held hostage in Syria by a group linked to al-Qaida. On Tuesday El Mundo said that veteran reporter Javier Espinosa and photographer Ricardo…