Tunisia’s election authority has proposed a parliamentary vote on Oct. 26 and the first round of presidential polls a month later, marking the final step towards full democracy in the cradle of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings. Tunisia’s often turbulent political transition began...

Residents of the Armenian Christian village of Kasab on Syria’s border with Turkey began returning home on Monday, dancing, cheering and waving flags in the main square a day after the army retook the area from rebels. The fall of Kasab to President Bashar al-Assad’s forces...

(AFP)- Chemical weapons such as chlorine have been used in a “systematic manner” in Syria, according to an initial report by a team from the world's watchdog investigating alleged attacks there . The report has not been publicly released, but...

(Reuters) - Russia said on Tuesday it has gained Syrian approval to open four border crossings from Iraq, Jordan and Turkey to deliver aid to millions of people under a "far-reaching formula" proposed to U.N. Security Council members. Russian U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin...