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NEW YORK, Nov 7 (KUNA) -- Acting in implementation of the Arab League Ministerial meeting in Cairo, Egypt, last Sunday, the Arab group here mandated its troika to begin contacts with UNSC key members to adopt a resolution on humanitarian…

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish authorities have seized 1,200 rocket heads after searching a truck in a region close to the Syrian border. The weapons were discovered in Adana, 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the Turkish-Syrian border, by…

MOSCOW (AP) The main Western-backed Syrian opposition group has "responded positively" to a Russian offer to host talks with President Bashar Assad's government that could focus on humanitarian issues of the country's civil war, Russia's…

MOSCOW, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- Russian and U.S. senior diplomats agreed at their meeting in Geneva the Syrian opposition was not ready for a peace conference in Geneva, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. "Taking into account the…

The dead include: 26 civilians, 21 rebel fighters, 34 regular soldiers, 1 YPG fighters, 1 SSNP commander, 11 unidentified rebel fighters, 3 defected officers, 17 NDF combatants, 2 fighters from the ISIS and al-Nusra, 16 non-Syrian fighters…

Moscow: Russia insisted on Tuesday that Iran must be invited to peace negotiations on Syria that world powers hope to hold in Geneva later this month. "All those who affect the situation must be invited to the conference," Russian…

The international body tasked with eliminating Syria's chemical weapons has raised only enough money to fund its mission through the end of November, and more cash will have to be found soon to pay for the destruction of poison gas stocks…

A funeral has been held in south-eastern Iran for a Revolutionary Guards commander who was reportedly killed by rebel forces in Syria. Brig Gen Mohammad Jamali-Paqaleh was buried with full honours in Kerman. He had volunteered to "defend…

Delegates from the UN, Russia and the US arrived here Tuesday for a trilateral meeting to prepare for the long-delayed peace talks on Syria. Participants include UN-Arab League Joint Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi, UN…

Aleppo province: Violent clashes by the Khaldiya and Bani Zeid neighbourhoods, regime forces bombard the areas of clashes. Regime forces took control of the Gas and Woodworks buildings in Khaldiya. 1 rebel battalion leader was killed…