France and Iran heralded a series of major deals thought to be worth billions of dollars on Thursday as the two countries resealed trade ties following the lifting of sanctions against Tehran. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, visiting Paris as part of a tour that saw him stop in Rome earlier...

The powerful Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and its local allies have drawn up plans for a major attack to seize the final stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border held by ISIS fighters, a YPG source familiar with the plan said Thursday. Such an offensive could deprive ISIS fighters of a logistical...

Syria peace talks due to start in Switzerland on Friday "cannot fail," the chief UN mediator in the conflict said in a video message to the Syrian people Thursday. "You have seen enough conferences, two of them already taken place," Staffan de Mistura said on the eve of the intra-Syrian...

Britain is to offer refuge to unaccompanied children from Syria and other conflict zones, the government announced Thursday. Immigration Minister James Brokenshire said his department would fund programs to identify children in camps on Syria’s borders as well as those already in Europe with...