The food rations and medical supplies that Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday would be provided to the Free Syrian Army mark the first time that the United States has publicly committed itself to sending nonlethal aid more...

The US president and his Russian counterpart have expressed agreement in a telephone call on "the need to advance a political transition" and seek "new initiatives" to end the violence in Syria as soon as possible, the White House has more...

New US Secretary of State John Kerry has been holding talks with his Turkish counterpart on the conflict in Syria. At a news conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Mr Kerry said the two Nato allies shared a common more...

Clashes between the Syrian army and rebels at a border post brought the civil war close to neighboring Iraq, where troops fired warning shots into the air, residents, officials and a Reuters reporter said. Insurgents seized control of more...

The United Nations will be prepared to facilitate a dialogue between the Syrian government and the opposition group, UN chief and UN-Arab League Joint Special Representative said Saturday after a closed-door meeting held in Mont Pelerin, Switzerland.The more...

The first of six NATO Patriot missile batteries intended to protect Turkey from a potential Syrian attack arrived by ship from Germany on Monday, drawing a small but noisy protest from nationalist and leftist demonstrators.   Dozens of camouflaged more...

TEHRAN, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on Tuesday for enhancing relation with Syria in different fields. Urging comprehensive ties with the Arab state, the Iranian president said that "The relations between two countries more...

(CNN) —The Russian Consulate General in Syria's largest city has suspended operations, according to Russia's state-run RIA Novosti news agency. 20 things: Middle East conflict Syrian president: Nation's enemies will... "The operations of the Russian Federation's Consulate General more...

Russian warships have embarked on a long voyage to the Black and Mediterranean seas to take part in what the Defense Ministry said would be the largest naval exercise in decades.It said on Wednesday that ships from its Northern, Baltic, more...

CAIRO: International peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi warned on Sunday the Syrian war was worsening "by the day" as he announced a peace plan he believed could find support from world powers seeking to end the conflict. Brahimi's comments in more...

The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, has said the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, will not quit before his term ends in 2014 and that it is ''impossible to change his position''. The declaration came as more...

The United Nations envoy for the Syria crisis has warned that further deterioration of conditions in the country could send an unbearable stream of refugees into neighboring countries. Speaking Saturday after meeting in Moscow with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey more...

Russia has shown a burst of diplomatic energy before talks here today with the U.N. envoy on Syria, perhaps seeing a chance for a breakthrough that would temper the criticism it has drawn in the West and the more...

In his Christmas message to the world Tuesday, Pope Benedict XVI called for an end to the slaughter in Syria and for more meaningful negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians, while encouraging more religious freedom under China's new more...

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Friday added to recent signals that Moscow is slowly distancing itself from the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, its longstanding but now severely weakened ally. Warning of chaos, Mr. Putin, who more...