Syria

US House of Representatives voted to ban Syrian refugees from entering the US without tougher screening measures

Foreign minister says they are ready for practical cooperation with those countries which are part of the coalition

Says there can be no end to Syrian crisis while President Bashar al Assad remains in power

France intensified strikes on Raqa following last week's attacks in Paris that left 129 dead

Obama wants Moscow to shift its focus from propping up Syria's government to fighting Islamic State

Putin pledges to hunt down and ‘punish’ those behind the attack

Hollande and Rouhani insist on the importance of the Vienna peace talks to resolve the conflict in Syria

Ben Swann explains that it was also direct US action, and not only inaction, that led to creation of IS

Cameron says he would take immediate action if British interests were at stake

The remarks came after officials said agreement was reached on a roadmap to a more inclusive government in Damascus

"Walls of mistrust within Syria, within the region, within the international community are thick and they are high"

The talks will bring together around 20 countries and international bodies to try to agree on a roadmap for peace

Pentagon and Moscow officials drew up a memorandum of understanding on flight safety guidelines

Most of the released hostages were women who were abducted more than eight months ago

3 reports have been sent by OPCW to the body's 192 members after separate missions to investigate incidents in Syria

Obama says he is not putting US troops on the front lines fighting firefights with Islamic State

Russia, Syria's ally, has long maintained that there is no hard proof linking President Assad's forces to the attacks

A meeting in Vienna on Syria went on longer than expected and had an outcome that was as unexpected as it was welcome

The bombardments came as air raids by Syrian government forces and Russian warplanes intensified across the country

The decision is strictly focused on fighting Islamic State insurgents, says US Secretary of State

Overall Russian planes made 1,391 sorties, destroying 1,623 terrorist targets

Officials indicated the new mission would echo existing operations in Iraq

US says it is looking for signs of compromise from Tehran and Moscow

Reports suggest one of the raids hit a field hospital, while a street market was also targeted

Assad said terrorism was 'the main cause of the suffering of the Syrian people'

Mohammad Javad Zarif will join international talks this week aimed at ending the four-year conflict

Investigators says he sought to join Islamic State or other insurgents trying to bring down Syrian president

Kerry thanked the king 'for Saudi Arabia's support to multilateral efforts to pursue a political transition in...

Abdollah Bagheri Niaraki was killed while defending a religious site near Aleppo

Of the total killed since then, 151 are civilians and include 38 children and 35 women

On September 30 Russia launched air strikes in Syria allowing Assad's battle-weary forces to go on the offensive

US views Assad, as someone who has used chemical weapons against his own people

Canada last year deployed CF-18 fighter jets to the region until March 2016

The three-foot-tall dwarf is reportedly enlisted with the al Qaeda linked group Jabhat al-Nusra

Saudi foreign minister accuses Iran of sending "Shia militias" to support Assad; calls Tehran "occupier of Arab...

US plans a meeting in coming days with Russian, Saudi and Turkish leaders to seek an end to Syrian conflict

Origin of drone unknown; Turkish officials say it was an "unmanned aircraft"

The civilian toll includes 12,517 children and 8,062 women

US claims the majority of Russian strikes have not hit IS but instead targeted rebel groups working against Assad

The head of the outfit says he would pay three million euros ($3.4 million) for anyone who can kill Bashar al-Assad

Head of al Nusra says the war in Syria will make the Russians forget the horrors that they found in Afghanistan

Some 300 people had begun to gather for a demonstration backing Russia's recent intervention in Syria

Russia has bombed command posts, training camps of what it says are radical "terrorists"

It is the highest-level contact between Kremlin and a Gulf Arab official since Russia's air strikes to support Assad

Hamedani was a veteran of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war and was made deputy chief commander of the elite forces in 2005

Stoltenberg cautioned that the situation demanded more than ever a political solution

Police says gang forged documents for migrants trying to reach central Europe

Russian planes hit four locations in central Hama province and three locations in northwestern Idlib province

Six ships are already in place in international waters off the coast of Libya

Strikes destroyed 20 armoured vehicles, three ammunition warehouses and three rocket launchers