(Financial Times)- When the Syrian government and rebels meet in Kazakhstan next week, the chances of the warring parties agreeing on a political solution to end their near six-year conflict will be slim. But for Moscow, the main sponsor of the talks, one crucial thing has already been...

A Palestinian lawmaker was among at least 13 activists arrested by Israeli forces on Monday in an operation targeting resistance movement Hamas in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. In a statement, the Israeli army said the operation was aimed at breaking up a Hamas "cell" that had been...

Tunisia on Saturday marked the sixth anniversary of the fall of dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali without fanfare, after official recognition of failure on the economic and social fronts. On the anniversary of the uprising which inspired Arab Spring revolts across the region, several protests...

If the United States wants to invite Kurds to the upcoming Syrian peace talks it might as well invite ISIS, said Turkey's foreign minister Saturday whose country views Kurdish fighters in Syria as extremists. The Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed wing, the Kurdish Peoples'...