Western and Arab demands for the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have fueled years of unnecessary bloodshed as they have prevented negotiations on a political settlement, Iran's foreign minister said on Wednesday. Iran's top diplomat, Mohammad Javad Zarif, also...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Senate rejected an effort on Wednesday to tie sanctions relief for Iran under an international nuclear agreement to a requirement that President Barack Obama certify that Tehran is not supporting acts of terrorism against Americans. A handful of Republicans...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 26 people have been killed and dozens wounded in Syrian air strikes on  Aleppo and Idlib northern Syria, activists and monitoring group said Wednesday. Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 10 people, including 2 children, were killed in barrel-bomb attack on...

Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Wednesday named his powerful Interior Minister as heir to the throne and a son as second in line, under a shakeup that also saw the world's longest-serving foreign minister replaced. "We have decided to respond to his highness and what he had expressed about...