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Focus of the United Nations Security Council this month will be issues related to Syria, said Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaite of Lithuania and Security Council President for the month of February. She said that the 15 members will hold informal consultations on the chemical weapons situation in Syria, and will hear …

At least 246 people, including 73 children, have been killed in five days of Syrian army barrel bombing of rebel-held held areas of second city Aleppo, an NGO said Thursday.

The United Nations and Syria have reached a deal to allow civilians to leave areas of Homs under army siege for more than 18 months, the provincial governor said Feb. 5.

The French government reiterated on Thursday its position that Syria must implement “without delay” its commitments and undertakings under the international agreement to rid that country of all chemical weapons and delivery

The Syrian government has not decided yet whether to take part in a second round of peace talks tentatively scheduled for next week, a senior official said. A tumultuous week of negotiations in the Swiss city of Geneva last month between President Bashar Assad’s government and the main Western-backed

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has met a delegation headed by the leader of the opposition Syrian National Coalition, Ahmed al-Jarba, in Moscow. The two sides discussed an outline for a potential transitional government in Syria. Lavrov said all parties should get more involved in exchanging dialogue with each other.

Washington’s top diplomat on Tuesday slammed the Syrian government’s use of deadly barrel bombs in the northern city of Aleppo. “Each and every barrel bomb filled with metal shrapnel and fuel launched against innocent Syrians underscores the barbarity of a regime that has

The Syrian government extended its intense aerial campaign against rebel-held areas of the northern city of Aleppo on Monday, conducting a series of airstrikes that killed at least 18 people, including five children, activists said. President Bashar Assad’s air force has pounded opposition areas of the divided city since mid-December, …

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet leader of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces, Ahmed al-Jarba, in Moscow Feb 4, the Russian foreign ministry said Friday.

Peace talks between Syria’s regime and opposition have made slim progress, but have raised hopes for a solution to the country’s civil war, U.N. mediator Lakhdar Brahimi said Jan. 30, announcing that the next round of