Turkish Defence Minister Ismet Yilmaz denied a report that some Turkish soldiers had entered Syria at the weekend and said Ankara was not considering sending troops into its neighbor, the Continue Reading
The failure of world powers to quell the five-year conflict in Syria , the Russian military intervention there and the spread of Islamic terrorism overshadowed an annual security conference here, Continue Reading
The Latest on the conflict in Syria and international diplomatic efforts to end the violence (all times local): 10:30 p.m. A medical aid organization estimates that more than 100,000 people Continue Reading
Questions about how and when a Syrian truce will be implemented deepened skepticism that the cease-fire will work, as Russian and Syrian warplanes on Friday sustained their relentless bombardment of Continue Reading
The morning after the United States and Russia agreed on a cease-fire plan for Syria ’s nearly five-year-old war, a dozen Syrians huddled at the border gate here on Friday Continue Reading
Leaders of humanitarian aid organizations have, over the last few months, repeatedly implored the warring parties in Syria and their backers not to use the delivery of food and medicine Continue Reading
Major powers agreed on Friday to a cessation of hostilities in Syria set to begin in a week and to provide rapid humanitarian access to besieged Syrian towns, but failed Continue Reading
Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergey V. Lavrov, announced that they had agreed on the delivery over the next few days of desperately needed aid to Continue Reading
For months now the United States has insisted there can be no military solution to the Syrian civil war, only a political accord between President Bashar al-Assad and the fractured, Continue Reading
Allies of the United States sharply criticized the Obama administration’s Syria policy on Wednesday, when the outgoing foreign minister of France called it “ambiguous” and the president of Turkey said Continue Reading
