Large groups of smugglers attempting to illegally cross into Turkey from Syria are creating growing headaches for units of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) stationed near the tense southern frontier, with reports that up to 2,000 smugglers alone attempted to enter the country on...

Saudi intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday to address the situation in the Middle East, the Kremlin said. "A wide number of questions regarding Saudi-Russia relations were discussed as well as the situation in North...

Tehran agrees to supply Damascus with oil in exchange for the right to invest in country devastated by conflict. Iran has agreed to supply Damascus with $3.6bn in oil in exchange for the right to invest in the country, Syria's state news agency SANA has said. "An agreement was signed...

  The hospital next to the Rabaa mosque was filled with the blood of 37 corpses, the doctors using two weeks' worth of medical supplies in two hours Aiman Husseini was lying by the wall. Khaled Abdul Nasser had his name written in black ink on his white shroud just to the left...