Sources revealed last week that Islamist rebels had arrested militants from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards near Aleppo, Syrian north. A resident from border village with Turkey, who refused to mention his village name, confirmed that an Iranian captive is captured by an...

The U.N. refugee agency says it has delivered aid to a rebel-held area of the war-shattered northern city of Aleppo in a "rare and risky" operation carried out in cooperation with the Syrian Red Crescent. UNHCR said in a statement Wednesday that the operation took place following an...

Turkey's opposition failed on Thursday to have the results of a local election in Ankara canceled in an attempt to salvage some victory from nationwide polls that proved a triumph for Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey's High Election Board refused an appeal by the main...

Kuwait expects to see "positive steps" taken in a dispute between Qatar and three other Gulf Arab states as soon as this week that may include a decision to send those countries' ambassadors back to Doha, a Kuwaiti official said on Wednesday. Saudi Arabia , the United Arab...