Russia and the US have agreed to hold Syria peace talks known as Geneva-2 in mid-November, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says.
Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad deserves credit for quickly starting the process of destroying the country’s chemical weapons stockpile, US Secretary of State John Kerry has said.
UN under-secretary-general for political affairs says the ongoing crisis in Syria cannot be resolved without the presence of Iran in upcoming negotiations.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has expressed doubts that the West will be successful in getting the Syrian opposition to take part in Geneva-2 peace conference.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is angered by President Hassan Rouhani’s landmark speech at the UN General Assembly after the Iranian leader Rouhani proposed establishment of “coalition for peace” to replace “military option on table.”
Syria’s Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil has said the government will call for a ceasefire if the proposed the Geneva-2 peace conference takes place.
An international aid agency has said donor countries are failing to adequately provide urgently-needed funding for the humanitarian crisis in Syria.
Iran’s deputy foreign minister has called for a halt to the influx of weapons to the foreign-backed militants in Syria, which has aggravated the humanitarian crisis in the country.
Syrian Prime Minister Wael Nader al-Halqi says Damascus has other means to inflict pain on its enemies, even without its chemical weapons.
Damascus is committed to act on the stockpile of chemical weapons in Syria based on UN decisions, Syria’s information minister has said.
A British defense study shows that militants fighting against Syria now number around 100,000 fighters, which are fragmented into around 1,000 bands.
The secretary general of Bahrain's main opposition group, al-Wefaq has welcomed a new statement by UN Human Rights Chief Navi Pillay on condemning the Al Khalifa regime’s crackdown on peaceful protests in the tiny Persian Gulf Arab nation.
The pope of the Roman Catholic Church has described war as defeat for humanity, urging world leaders to pull humanity out of a "spiral of sorrow and death."
The European Union has echoed Washington’s stance on Damascus, accusing the Syrian army of being behind a chemical weapons attack on a number of Damascus suburbs last month.
A video has emerged showing a Syrian terrorist confessing to killing of Syrian women and children in order to implement the directives of 9/11 mastermind terrorist Osama bin Laden.
A majority of Europeans oppose military intervention in Syria of any kind, a new poll shows, as Washington is considering to bomb the country.
A sixth US warship is now operating in the eastern Mediterranean, near five US destroyers armed with cruise missiles that could soon be directed against Syria.
More than 10 NATO countries have "most definitely" refused any forms of involvement in a US contemplated operation against Syria.
Israeli regime’s armed forces have launched a military drill in the occupied Lebanese border village of Ghajar ahead of a US-hatched military strike on Syria.
The European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee has called on the United States to prove its claims on the alleged chemical strike by the Syrian government near Damascus.