The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, has said that  "factors are not yet in place" for peace talks despite efforts by world powers to convene a meeting next month. In an interview with on Lebanon's Al-Mayadeen television, broadcast on Monday, Assad also said he desired a third term as...

A 12-year-old student armed with a handgun shot and killed a math teacher and critically wounded two classmates before killing himself at his Nevada middle school on Monday shortly before classes were due to begin, police said. Witnesses described a chaotic scene at the school in the...

Al-Qaeda-linked group in a statement issued today claimed killing Assad's intelligence head in Deir al-Zour days ago. Jameh Jameh had been killed by the mortar rounds ofJabhat al-Nusra during its liberation battle of al-Rushdia neighborhood, 250 soldiers of Assad's army have...

Facebook FB   -0.87%  is suffering a system outage Monday morning that is preventing people from posting status updates. It’s unclear how widespread the issue is, how long it has gone on, and whether it is affecting just the website or apps, too, but rest assured it isn’t...