Some of the people that Russia backed to attend proposed peace talks over Syria peace got invitations to the talks from the United Nations, two people who received invitations said on Tuesday. The talks are scheduled to begin on Jan. 29 in Geneva. "I have been invited, and Haitham Manaa,...

Turkey will boycott Syrian peace talks planned for this week if the Kurdish opposition Democratic Union Party (PYD) has been invited as part of the negotiating team, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday. The PYD, which is fighting ISIS and has enjoyed military support from the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian air strikes on Tuesday have killed 9 people in a rebel-held town in the northern province of Idlib, local activists said. The aerial attack hit the main marketplace of Ariha town, leaving 9 killed and 15 wounded, including 3 children in critical condition. On Monday,...

Iran says it will hold a "massive" naval drill near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the first such exercise since the incident involving 10 U.S. sailors who were briefly captured by Iran when they drifted into Iranian territorial waters earlier this month. The official IRNA news agency says...