Syria Conflict

International divisions over Syria surfaced anew at a Munich conference.

Russia's intervention in Syria has proved decisive, and even the Kurds are turning to Moscow.

Putin is confident that, when it comes down to Assad vs. ISIS, the West will swallow deeply and go with Assad.

It would have U.S. ground forces leading the escalation, an option ruled out by Obama, presidential candidates.

Russian and Syrian government forces attack rebel-held areas around the Syrian city.

Aggressors will be sent home "in coffins," Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem says.

The regime may opt not to take Aleppo now, preferring to bomb and besiege it instead.

Staffan de Mistura announced a three-week pause, the first attempt to negotiate an end to Syria's war in two years.

Even if a list of opposition groups is agreed on, there is no guarantee they will attend.

By the end of 2015 it was attacks not by militias, but by state militaries that increased.

There have been credible reports of people dying of starvation in besieged Syrian town, U.N. says.

Konstantin Dolgov says Russia's airstrike campaign in Syria was a high point of 2015.

Rescue workers say 43 locals have been confirmed dead, with at least 30 more bodies to be identified.

The scale of deaths on the battlefield of Iranian forces may have surprised Tehran.

Success is in the hands of those nations with strong investments in Syria's future.

Al-Shadadi is a key logistics hub for the group.

For Obama and Kerry to suggest Assad can stay is like telling Emmett Till's parents to just get over it.

As American and French influence declines, the Assad-Iran-Hezbollah-Russia axis rises.

"No wonder the regime is winning. We are becoming less and less as people leave."

The military situation on the ground does not indicate that the Assad regime needs to compromise.

Since the collapse of a ceasefire in July, the mainly Kurdish southeast has been wracked by clashes between security forces and PKK fighters.

Hezbollah fights to defend Assad; Lebanese Sunnis and Palestinian refugees support the Syrian rebels.

The more militarily aggressive Turkey gets, the more aggressively the costs rise.

Having failed to knock out Ukraine with one big punch, Putin hopes to kill it with a thousand cuts.

It is a terrifying prospect for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei if Moscow were to force Assad's ouster.

Russia's intervention in Syria is the latest in a long line of trolling campaigns.

A top Free Syrian Army commander describes how the Russians bolster Assad's forces.

Iran's client terrorist group in Lebanon, who stepped in after Assad's forces withdrew, must govern or decline.

The Islamic State is pushing the West to embrace the Kremlin's plan to end the Syrian civil war.

"The Americans have a long-term plot and are trying to dominate Syria and then the whole region," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said.