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Astonishing the diplomatic community in New York, Saudi Arabia announced last night that it would not be taking up a seat on the United Nations Security Council just one day after being elected to the body for two years. In an…

DAMASCUS - A suicide car bombing outside a pro-regime suburb of Damascus and fighting that followed killed 16 Syrian soldiers on Saturday, as the UN-Arab League envoy began a push for peace talks. Meanwhile, the United States said…

A British doctor who has volunteered in hospitals in Syria for five weeks, says snipers are shooting pregnant women for a game. Dr David Nott said snipers were shooting women and children deliberately. "It's more horrific than any other…

UN-Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi arrived in Cairo Saturday, airport officials said, to begin a regional tour aimed at paving the way for peace talks on the war-ravaged country. During his visit, Brahimi will meet Egyptian…

The largest group in Syria's opposition coalition says it will not take part in proposed peace negotiations in Geneva. Syrian National Council leader George Sabra said the group would pull out of the umbrella coalition if it took part in…

GENEVA (AP) — Officials say a Syrian Arab Red Crescent volunteer and three of six Red Cross staffers taken hostage in Syria are free and safe. Robert Mardini, the International Committee of the Red Cross' head of operations for the…

Syrian activist groups say a car bombing in a rebel-held northwestern town has killed at least 12 people. Two groups say the bombing took place on Monday at a market in the town of Darkoush in Idlib province and also wounded dozens. The…

LONDON — Pressure intensified on Syrian rebels on Monday to permit access to chemical weapons sites in areas under their control, as officials said the rapidly shifting lines in the civil war made it difficult for inspectors to reach…

Four International Red Cross workers who were abducted in Syria at the weekend were released unharmed on Monday. Robert Mardini, the ICRC's head of operations for the Middle East, confirmed that three staffers and one Syrian volunteer…

The brutal, Al Qaeda-linked group rebels invited into Syria to help topple President Bashir Assad has virtually taken over northern Syria, raising fears that its brand of indiscriminate terror could spill into neighboring Turkey, where…