As well as the nuclear dispute, relations with the West and Iran's internal divisions, Rohani also has to cope with an economy damaged by international sanctions and mismanagement and a civil war in  Syria  where it backs President Bashar al-Assad. Better relations with other...

 A veto-wielding member of the U.N. Security Council, will not permit no-fly zones to be imposed over  Syria , Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Monday. "I think we fundamentally will not allow this scenario," Lukashevich told a news briefing, adding...

Syria's pound -lira- has continued to slide against the dollar, losing as much as 175% of its value in the black market since the outbreak of Syrian revolution against the Assad regime March 2011. The pound is trading at a rate of about 115 to the US dollar according to central...

President Obama’s tack on Syria looks a lot like President George W. Bush’s handling of Iraq and “sounds an awful lot like how Vietnam started,” former Rep. Ron Paul argues in his weekly column. Mr. Paul, Texas Republican, argues that the recent announcement from the Obama...