The Syrian foreign ministry on Tuesday warned the EU against using frozen Damascus assets to finance the destruction of Syria's chemical arsenal, a mission led by world bodies.
A meeting on Syria crisis between the UN mediator and senior officials from Russia and the United States will take place on Friday, a UN official said Monday.
Representatives from the Syrian government and its opposition, sitting down face-to-face to a negotiating table for the first time in three years, talked humanitarian issues Saturday afternoon, said a mediator from the United Nations (UN) Lakhdar Brahimi.
The bloodshed in Syria must be stopped before its people could decide their own future in a free and fair election, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said here Thursday.
Hopes for success in the Geneve II talks that aim to resolve crisis in Syria are slim, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday.
A UN-backed international conference started Wednesday at the Swiss lakeside city of Montreux, aiming to end a three-year-long conflict in Syria.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday urged the Syrian opposition to attend a key peace conference which aims at bringing an end to the three-year conflict in Syria.
Australia will contribute an additional 10 million AU dollars (8.92 million U.S. dollars) in humanitarian aid to help people affected by the conflict in Syria and 2 million AU dollars (1.78 million U.S. dollars) to support efforts to destroy Syria's chemical weapons, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop confirmed on Thursday.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday he and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed the possibility of a ceasefire in Syria ahead of peace talks in Switzerland later this month.
Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said Sunday that the Syrian government will participate in the upcoming Geneva II peace conference and will convey the "directives" of President Bashar al-Assad, the state- run SANA news agency reported.
There are about 100 Australians who are fighting with extremists in Syria have joined one of the world's deadliest terrorist group, The Australian newspaper reported Tuesday in its exclusive report.
Syria's long-term crisis has displaced more than 450,000 Christian Syrians and killed more than a thousand of them, Gregory III Laham, Patriarch of the Church of Antioch and all East, told Xinhua in an interview on Thursday.
Turkish Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz has dismissed allegations that his country exported war weapons to Syria in 2013, stressing that Turkish companies exported only sports-related rifles and guns to the war-torn country.
The joint team of the United Nations-Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said on Thursday it "concludes that chemical weapons have been used in the ongoing conflict between the parties in the Syrian Arab Republic."
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Monday expressed concerns over the targeting of religious people in Syria's conflict, after a group of nuns went missing from the Christian town of Maaloula in Syria.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday welcomed Slovakia's interest in helping destroy the chemical weapons stockpiles in Syria.
Syrian military jets on Thursday launched three air raids on the outskirts of Lebanon's Arsal border town in the east Bekaa, a local security source said.
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