
The Syrian government is due to meet the foreign-backed armed opposition factions on Monday in the Kazakh capital Astana, in the latest push to end the conflict. Scheduled to begin at 0800 GMT, the planned face-to-face talks would be the first time the warring sides negotiate directly since the war ...

Syrian army soldiers and fighters from allied popular defense groups have made more gains against members of the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) takfiri group in the country’s northwestern province of Aleppo, pushing terrorists out of four villages. The media bureau of operations command for the ...