UN mediator at the Geneva peace talks Lakhdar Brahimi has announced that Syria will allow women and children to leave…
Syrian government and opposition representatives have met briefly face to face in Geneva in what is being hailed a small…
Syrian government delegation has threatened to quit peace talks in Geneva if "serious" discussions do not begin by Saturday. Foreign…
Forty-eight Iranians held hostage by rebels in Syria since August have been freed, Iranian state TV reports. The Iranians were…
Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad is to give a rare speech to the nation, state media say, as he continues to…
At least 90 people have been killed in a government air strike on a bakery in the central Syrian province…
Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN's envoy to Syria, says President Bashar al-Assad's government has agreed to abide by a ceasefire during…
International peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has met Syria's president Bashar al-Assad in Damascus. Lakhdar Brahimi, who represents the UN and…
The UN-Arab League envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, has had talks in Turkey amid rising tensions between Ankara and Damascus.…
Violence is continuing in Syria, with opposition activists saying that a warplane may have killed as many as 25 people…
Lakhdar Brahimi, the new UN-Arab League envoy on Syria, has given a deeply pessimistic view of the task ahead of…
President Barack Obama has said the use of chemical weapons by Syria would be a "red line" that would change…
Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi has been appointed as the new UN-Arab League envoy for Syria, officials have confirmed. Lakhdar Brahimi,…