U.N. special envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen has said that formation of a “new inclusive government” in Damascus by March 1 ...

As Rabbi Yusuf Hamra and his son Henry were visiting Damascus this week for the first time since emigrating from Syria to the ...

Last week his officials announced a seven-person “preparatory” committee, charged with planning a national conference where a new constitution will be discussed. Critics say it is dominated by ...

The Kurdish National Council (ENKS), an umbrella group of Kurdish opposition parties in northeast Syria (Rojava), said that “the exclusion of Kurdish representation” from the preparatory ...

DAMASCUS - Groups that refuse to lay down their arms and submit to the defence ministry's authority will play no part in a national dialogue on Syria's future, a committee set up to prepare for a ...

The new leaders want the Kurdish-led militia, the Syrian Democratic Forces, to commit to giving up its weapons as a condition to be included in a national dialogue. The dialogue is supposed to ...

“This will be the first real gathering of Syrians in 75 years,” said Huda al-Atassi, a former detainee and a member of the organizing committee for Syria’s national dialogue conferenc ...

For the first time in three decades, Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry read from a Torah scroll in a synagogue in the ...

The suspect was detained by police. He is a Syrian national with legal residence in Austria, police said. A 14-year-old was killed and four others were injured in the attack, according to reports.

The Paris conference to chart Syria’s political future will include ... For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on the national dialogue conference, FRANCE 24's Mark Owen is joined ...

Syrian banknotes were printed in Russia under ... Reuters provides business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world's media organizations ...