Western and Arab demands for the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have fueled years of unnecessary bloodshed as they have prevented negotiations on a political settlement, Iran's foreign minister said on Wednesday. Iran's top diplomat, Mohammad Javad Zarif, also...

European Parliament has adopted a resolution to increase the EU budget for fighting illegal immigration networks in the Mediterranean in a bid to stop migrant deaths at sea. The resolution, which was approved by 449 votes to 130, with 93 abstentions Wednesday, said that the budget would be...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 26 people have been killed and dozens wounded in Syrian air strikes on  Aleppo and Idlib northern Syria, activists and monitoring group said Wednesday. Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 10 people, including 2 children, were killed in barrel-bomb attack on...

The European Union's top diplomat on Tuesday voiced the hope that Iran would play an important but constructive role in a renewed United Nations push to restart negotiations aimed at ending the four-year civil war in Syria. The U.N. envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, has said he will...