Russia's sports minister Tuesday said he hoped to see tennis star Maria Sharapova back on court after she failed a dope test at the Australian Open. "I feel sorry for Masha. I hope that we will see her back on court and we are prepared to support her," minister Vitaly Mutko told state-run TASS...

A European Union draft deal with Turkey to stop migrants reaching Greece introduces a harder edge of coercion to what critics have derided as a hitherto feeble EU response to a crisis tearing it apart. Just last week, some saw European Council President Donald Tusk running short...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Al Qaeda Syria's branch, the Nusra Front, harshly broke up an ant-regime demonstration in northern Idlib city and arrested five media activists as the revolution's fifth anniversary nears, activists said on Monday. Fighters of the Nusra-led Army of conquest, or Fatah Army,...

(The Daily Mail)- MI6 and British police are investigating alleged attacks on civilians by Russian war planes in Syria – with a view to prosecuting President Vladimir Putin for war crimes, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Scotland Yard detectives have flown to Lebanon to monitor air...