Egypt's Islamist president says he is cutting off diplomatic relations with Syria and has ordered that Damascus Embassy in Cairo to be closed. Mohammed Morsi told thousands of supporters in a rally held on Saturday that his government is also withdrawing the Egyptian charge d'affaires from...

The founder of the Free Syrian Army expressed his fears through a message to Zaman Alwasl of deviation the Syria Revolution, stressing that the Assad regime can't be toppled as long as the military and political efforts are not at a high level of coordination and unity ....

More than 70 Syrian military officers, including six generals and 22 colonels, have deserted President Bashar al-Assad's army in the past 36 hours and have crossed the border into Turkey, the biggest such defection in months, an official told AFP on Saturday. The defections of the 71 army...

Hassan Rowhani, the bearded cleric who is leading the pack in Iran's presidential election, is a moderate who has pledged to engage more with world powers in hopes of easing crippling economic sanctions. Rowhani, who headed Iran's nuclear negotiating team in the early 2000s under reformist...