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Syria opposition agree united delegation for peace talks
Syria's disparate opposition groups announced an agreement early Friday to send a united delegation to next week's UN-brokered peace talks in Geneva, as international diplomatic…
Macron opts for ‘realpolitik’, drops French calls to oust Assad
President Emmanuel Macron has said France no longer sees Bashar al-Assad’s departure as a pre-condition to resolving the Syrian conflict, ending his predecessor’s intransigent…
US-backed forces attack IS group stronghold of Raqqa
The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Tuesday it had begun a battle to capture Raqqa, Islamic State group’s de facto capital in Syria, launching attacks from the…
US to probe civilian deaths in Syria as opposition calls for halt to air strikes
The head of the opposition Syrian National Coalition called for a suspension of the US-led air campaign against the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria while reports of civilian…
First aid convoy in four years reaches besieged Syrian town
The besieged Syrian town of Daraya, a rebel-held suburb of Damascus where President Bashar al-Assad has refused to allow aid to starving Syrians, got its first U.N. aid convoy…
Top Syrian opposition negotiator quits peace talks
The chief peace negotiator of Syria’s mainstream opposition said on Sunday he was resigning over the failure of the U.N.-backed Geneva peace talks to bring a political settlement.
Syria opposition rejects talks, blames ‘Russian aggression’
Syria's key opposition National Coalition said Sunday it would boycott talks proposed by UN peace envoy Staffan de Mistura over concerns about his plan and Russia's air strikes…
Independent Greeks emerge as Syriza coalition option
The anti-bailout Independent Greeks party has emerged as a potential coalition partner for Syriza should the leftists win Sunday’s election, as polls predict.
'No Syrian expected the crisis to last this long'
Mokhtar Lamani was the head of the office of the UN-Arab League Joint Special Representative in Damascus until last March. As such, he was in daily contact with both the…
The battle for Kobani: Will Turkey step in? (part 2)
Is Turkey pivoting? Speaking near the border with Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned that a ground operation is needed to combat the Islamic State group...and that…
The battle for Kobani: Will Turkey step in?
Is Turkey pivoting? Speaking near the border with Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned that a ground operation is needed to combat the Islamic State group...and that…
Exiled Syrian opposition elects new president
The Syrian National Coalition chose Hadi el-Bahra for its new leader on Wednesday as government and rebel forces prepared for a major battle in the frontline city of Aleppo.