The U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal opens the way to raising pressure on Tehran to stop its military support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and leave the country, a Syrian opposition leader said on Thursday. Nasr Hariri of the Syrian Negotiation Commission (SNC) spoke...

President Bashar al-Assad said he would recover areas of Syria held by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), and that U.S. forces should learn the lesson of Iraq and leave the country. In an interview with Russia Today, Assad also said the government had "started now opening doors...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Rescue workers have retrieved 15 bodies trapped under mounds of debris in the Yarmouk Palestinian Camp south of the capital, local activists said Wednesday. Bodies of a mother and her four children were retrieved after lifting heavy slabs of concrete in search of...

NGO workers in Hungary could soon face prison after Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government tabled what it calls the "Stop Soros" laws to parliament Tuesday, targeting "organisers of illegal migration". According to the text of the legislation, helping asylum-seekers to acquire refugee...