Tag: Syrian government

Syria's opposition on Sunday announced its 21-member delegation, including 10 rebel representatives, for a new round of UN-sponsored peace talks ...

Turkish troops and Syrian rebels on Saturday entered the Islamic State-held town of Al-Bab in northern Syria, as government forces ...

President Vladimir Putin has sent condolences after a Russian air strike accidentally killed three Turkish soldiers in northern Syria. The ...

As many as 13,000 people, most of them civilian opposition supporters, have been executed in secret at a prison in ...

Representatives from Russia, Turkey and Iran have kicked off a technical meeting in Kazakhstan's capital Astana to discuss details of ...

Syrian government forces took back control of an area near Damascus that provides most of the capital's water supplies after ...

The Syrian government's lead negotiator has denounced what he called his rebel counterpart's "provocative" comments at the start of peace ...

Syria's warring sides met for talks in Kazakhstan's capital on Monday, flanked by intermediary nations seeking to engineer steps towards ...

Turkish President Recep Erdogan alleged, giving the Obama administration a ‘new-year-surprise’, December 28 that Turkey is in possession of “confirmed ...

At least nine people are reported killed and 25 others wounded in a car bomb attack on Syrian government-held coastal ...

Syrian rebel groups say they are suspending participation in the preparations for peace talks planned by Russia and Turkey for ...

Syrian rebel groups say they are suspending participation in the preparations for peace talks planned by Russia and Turkey for ...

Islamist terrorism is the biggest challenge facing Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said in her New Year message. Referring to ...

A new nationwide ceasefire between Syrian government forces and rebel groups appears to be largely holding. However isolated clashes have ...

A nationwide ceasefire between Syrian government forces and rebel groups has come into effect. The truce, brokered by Russia and ...

The Syrian government and rebel groups have agreed to a ceasefire from midnight (22:00 GMT) across the country, followed by ...

Russia has called a US decision to ease restrictions on arming Syrian opposition groups a "hostile act" that would directly ...

A huge search operation is continuing "round the clock" in Russia, after a Russian military plane with 92 people on ...

The United Nations General Assembly has voted to establish a special team to "collect, consolidate, preserve and analyse evidence" as ...

Clashes between Turkish-backed Syrian rebels and ISIL fighters have intensified around the northern Syrian town of Al-Bab, resulting in the ...