Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir discussed Syria's future with his Russian counterpart in Moscow Wednesday after which he said Riyadh still believed there was no political future for President Bashar Assad. Al-Jubeir, after talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, also...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the airstrike that the United States launched at a Syrian military base earlier this month damages the prospects of a political settlement for the war-torn country. The airstrike was in response to a chemical weapons attack on April 4 on a northern...

French intelligence services have concluded that forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad carried out a sarin nerve gas attack on April 4 in northern Syria and that Assad or his closest entourage ordered the strike, a declassified report showed. The attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun...

U.S. troops began delivering a missile defence system that has infuriated China to a deployment site in South Korea Wednesday, amid heightened tensions over the North's nuclear ambitions. Washington is urging Beijing -- Pyongyang's sole major ally -- to do more to rein it in, but the Asian...