Two Saudis were among a mainly Qatari hunting party freed after a 16-month hostage ordeal in Iraq, Saudi media reported Saturday. The 26 hunters, initially believed to all be Qataris, were flown to Doha Friday after being handed over to Iraqi authorities. Jeddah-based newspaper Okaz...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov voiced "regret" in a phone call with his U.S. counterpart Friday at Washington's opposition to a Moscow-backed plan to investigate an alleged chemical attack in Syria. In the call with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson which "took place at U.S....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Spokesman for powerful Hayat Tahrir al-Sham Islamist group said the Syrian opposition had not involved in direct talks with Iran-allied Shiite militias over the Qatari hunting party who was kidnapped in southern Iraq in 2015 and released on Friday. Imad el-Din Mujahed said the...

( The Guardian )- Syrian families are naming their children Putin as a mark of gratitude for the Russian president’s support for his Syrian counterpart in the six-year war, a government official has said. The Syrian ambassador in Moscow, Riyad Haddad, said Bashar al-Assad had also made...