U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will chair a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Friday to push efforts to end the conflict in Syria, the State Department said on Wednesday. While in New York, Kerry will also host a meeting of the International Syria Support...

Reporting by Lama Shammas; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrians refugees  in Narlija town near Antalya resort southern Turkey have complained the mistreatment of an association funded by the U.N. Fadi Al Ghazo, a Syrian refugee told Zaman Al Wasl that most Turkish...

An Iranian news agency said on Wednesday the commander of foreign operations for Tehran's elite Revolutionary Guards had met Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, but his spokesman flatly denied the report. Fars news agency said General Qassem Soleimani, who visited Moscow in July to aid...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says it's unacceptable that a solution to the Syrian civil war depends on the fate of one man – President Bashar Assad. He told a news conference Wednesday that the United Nations is pressing for a nationwide cease-fire and the start of negotiations on a...