Turkey's gendarmerie said it found the bodies of 21 migrants, three of them children, at two separate locations on the Aegean coast on Tuesday after their boat apparently capsized as they tried to reach the Greek island of Lesbos. Eleven of the bodies were discovered on the shoreline in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebels are pressing slow advances in the ongoing Sheikh Miskeen battles in the southern Daraa province, senior commander told Zaman al-Wasl Tuesday. Fauzi al-Nassar, commander of al-Sanamayn Martyrs Brigade, said rebels have achieved progress  in the surrounding district...

A fact-finding mission of the global anti-chemical weapons watchdog has found indications that some people in Syria were exposed to deadly sarin gas, or a compound like it, according to a report the United Nations released on Monday. The findings come in the latest monthly...

The United Nations worked quickly on Monday to salvage fragile international bids to broker peace in Syria and Yemen from a spillover of tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran after Riyadh's decision to cut off ties with Tehran. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday told...