Official results confirm that Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives have won Germany's election, but indicate that they have finished short of an absolute majority. Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party together won 41.5 percent of the vote,...

  A delegation from the Syrian National Coalition has arrived in New York ahead of the UN General Assembly, the group said.   Delegates include the Coalition's president Ahmad Jarba, as well as prominent members Michel Kilo and Burhan Ghalioun....

Abu-Abdallah al-Libi, a top commander of al-Qaeda front group The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), has been killed on Sunday in Idlib in northwestern Syria, Al Arabiya television reported. The Free Syrian Army denied responsibility for Libi’s death. The militant group is posing...

    Reuters reports that the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is now saying that Moscow is ready to send troops to Syria to ensure the safety of United Nations chemical weapons inspectors. He also said that Russia categorically opposes any UN...