DAMASCUS (AFP) - At least four people were killed and 17 wounded in a double bomb blast in Syria's central city of Homs on Tuesday, the provincial governor told AFP. Governor Talal Barazi said the blasts were caused by motorbikes rigged with explosives in the Wadi Dahab and Al-Zahra...

At least 37 people were killed Tuesday in a regime barrel bomb attack on a mini-bus stand in a rebel-held part of Syria's Aleppo city, activists said. "Helicopters committed a massacre, dropping a barrel bomb on a mini-bus station in the Fardous district of Aleppo, killing 20 civilians, among...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Russia to meet President Vladimir Putin with an eye on easing badly strained relations over conflicts in Ukraine and Syria. Kerry was to lay a wreath at a World War II memorial in the Black Sea resort city before meeting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey...

Iran's nuclear chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, who has played a major role in recent talks with world powers, has had emergency surgery for a perforated bowel, state media reported Tuesday. Doctors discovered the tear in the wall of his gut on Monday evening and operated on it successfully, state...