Fighters from an al Qaeda-linked rebel group killed 12 members of the minority Alawite sect in central Syria after seizing their village, an opposition monitoring group said on Wednesday. Alawites are an offshoot sect of Shi'ite Islam and have been increasingly targeted by...

A week of gains for world stocks petered out on Wednesday and a sell-off in oil and core government debt eased, as talks began on trying to avert a U.S. military strike on Syria against a broadly calm market backdrop. The safe-haven yen was at a seven-week low...

In his presidential Address on Tuesday, Mr. Barack Obama, President of the United States has mentioned a mature video footage full of distressed showed a shocked father weeping his daughters whom passed away in the chemical attacks last Wednesday on...