Iran is now in the final months of extended negotiations with   Western countries on the future of its nuclear programme; talks that could reshape the geopolitical equation in the Middle East. But as the violence continues to smolder in neighbouring Iraq and Syria, and...

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(Reuters) - Britain raised its terrorism alert on Friday to the second-highest level with Prime Minister David Cameron saying the Islamic State (IS) group operating in Syria and Iraq posed the country's greatest ever security risk. The government said there was no...

The number of refugees from the conflict in Syria now tops three million, the United Nations said on Friday, as US President Barack Obama admitted he still has no strategy to tackle advancing jihadists. UN refugee agency chief Antonio Guterres said that Syria now constituted the...