According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, Russian, US, and UN officials will meet next week to plan a peace conference between the warring sides in Syria
(VOVworld) – An international peace conference will be held in Geneva next week at the initiative of Russia and the US to try to put an end to the prolonged crisis in...
British Foreign Secretary William Hague confirmed late Monday that the European Union has lifted its arms embargo on the Syrian opposition
Russia says Damascus has agreed "in principle" to attend an international conference on the Syria crisis set to be held in Geneva in June
(VOV) – The “Friends of Syria” group including the US and 10 Arab and European allies, gathered on Wednesday in Jordan’s capital Amman
Factions of the Syrian opposition forces held talks in Madrid on Monday seeking to coordinate their approach to Syria’s bloody civil war
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Saturday he welcomed a US-Russian peace initiative to end Syria’s civil war but had no plans to resign, in an interview with an...
Few Americans want the U.S. military to get involved in the conflict in Syria, even the government there uses chemical weapons. A Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Wednesday only...
(VOVworld) - Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi said Friday that Damascus has agreed to allow Russian experts to inspect the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria
US Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel says Syria’s government has used chemical weapons in its civil war against insurgents
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that selling weapons to Syrian opposition forces would violate international law
(VOVworld)- After 7 years of negotiations, the United Nations has finally endorsed the historic Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), breaking a deadlock over the global trade of conventional weapons. However, observers say...
(VOVworld)- Syria’s political crisis has reached a turning point when Syrian President Bashar Al Assad’s government was voted out of the Arab League. Syria’s representative in the AL...
Syria has asked UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to a appoint special, independent, and neutral technical mission to investigate an alleged chemical weapons attack that the regime has blamed on...
Syria's opposition will not enter into dialogue with the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, the country's newly elected Prime Minister Ghassan Hitto said Tuesday in Istanbul
Syrian rebels said on Monday they fired mortar shells at the presidential palace, the Damascus International Airport, and security buildings to mark the second anniversary of the uprising against President...
(VOVworld)-March 15 marks 2 years since the political crisis and violence began in Syria, claiming the lives of nearly 70,000 people and leaving more than 1 million homeless. In those two...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has refused to consider resigning or leaving his country in an interview which appeared in the British newspaper Sunday Times
Several governments have pledged more political and material support for the Syrian National Coalition (SNC), which the West considers the sole legitimate representative of the Syrian people
(VOVworld) – The new American Secretary of State John Kerry is on a visit to nine countries in Western Europe and the Arab world. Unlike his predecessor Hilary Clinton who chose Asia for her...