Their footage showed men shaving their beards and veiled women setting fire to niqabs they were forced to wear in...

  It is estimated the death toll since the start of the conflict at abound 430,000. About 11 million people have...

  But distinguishing rebels protected by the ceasefire from jihadists who are excluded from it is tricky

  The ceasefire will not apply to the jihadist groups Islamic State or Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, known as the Nusra...

  Kerry said the "bedrock" of the new deal was an agreement that the Syrian government would not fly combat missions...

 

  The advance by the Syrian army and allied militia resulted in the complete re-encirclement of the city's rebel-held...

  There is a palpable sense in the region that the tide has turned against Islamic State.

Whichever side they came from, Syrians on board a flight from Beirut to Mecca made no mention of their differences and...

  He was a founding member of Nusra Front, Al Qaeda's powerful Syrian branch, and had been among the jihadists who fought...

  Five years after the multi-sided war began, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and 11 million - half of Syria...

 

  Syria's cabinet said the attacks were a response to the recapture on Sunday by the army and its allies...

Obama and Putin did not get into the finer details of a deal, but made progress to clarify "the remaining gaps...

  This is the second time in two weeks that Kerry and Lavrov have failed to reach a deal on a ceasefire...