Last Updated: Thursday, January 23, 2014, 00:06
A missile attack on Wednesday on an opposition area in northern Syria killed 10 people, including five children and three women.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 16:25
Pope Francis urged participants at peace talks in Switzerland on Wednesday to urgently agree to end the civil war in Syria that has killed over 100,000 people.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 15:27
Efforts to broker a peace settlement for Syria will be neither simple nor quick, but a peace conference marks a historic opportunity, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 14:54
Syria`s government and opposition, meeting for the first time at a UN peace conference, angrily spelled out their hostility on Wednesday as world powers also offered sharply divergent views on forcing out Bashar al-Assad.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 13:04
Iran`s President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday cast doubts on the chances of success in Syrian peace talks, after his country excluded from the conference, Mehr news agency reported.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 10:07
The crucial Syria peace talks began, Wednesday, in this picturesque town on Lake Geneva amid little hope of a real breakthrough to end the years of bloodshed in the Middle Eastern country.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 06:05
Just a day before a marathon peace conference aimed at resolving Syrian crisis is scheduled to take place in Geneva, a report has blamed Syrian regime for systematically torturing and killing about 11,000 prison inmates.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 05:15
British Foreign Secretary William Hague called upon all sides involved in Syria`s bloody civil war to "seize the chance" of peace ahead of crucial talks in Switzerland.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 04:46
The Vatican is sending a delegation to the Syria peace talks due to start in Switzerland today, a spokesman said, following repeated calls by Pope Francis for an immediate ceasefire.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 02:59
Muallem promised that the government delegation would make every effort to ensure the peace conference bore fruit.
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 23:39
A plane carrying the Syrian delegation to crucial peace talks in Switzerland has been blocked in Athens where it stopped for refuelling, an official Syrian source said.
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 19:44
The UN chief`s decision to rescind the invitation to Iran to join this week`s Syria peace talks was a mistake but not a catastrophe, Russia`s foreign minister said on Tuesday.
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