Millions of Iranians voted to choose a new president on Friday, urged by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to turn out in force to discredit suggestions by arch foe the United States that the election would be unfair. The country's 50 million eligible voters have a choice between six...

  It's a warm day on the Turkish-Syrian border. France's recently recalled ambassador to Syria  is incognito with his deputy and a security agent. After checking the surroundings are clear, the diplomat pulls out a stash of brown envelopes stuffed with thousands of dollars....

 American and European intelligence analysts now believe that President Bashar al-Assad’s troops have used chemical weapons against rebel forces in the civil war in Syria, an assessment that will put added pressure on a deeply divided Obama administration to develop a response to a...

Influential Sunni clerics from several Arab states including Saudi Arabia and  Egypt  called on Thursday for a holy war against the "sectarian" regime in  Syria . "We must undertake jihad to help our brothers in Syria by sending them money and arms, and providing all aid to...