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Iran's Zarif to visit Syria ahead of peace talks

 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is due to travel to Tehran ally Damascus in the next few days, media reported Sunday, amid preparations for a Syria peace conference. Zarif was Sunday in Lebanon, which neighbours war-torn Syria, and said that his country is not...

Assad Forces kill at least 27 in Waer, Homs

27 people have been killed by shelling of forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad in the embattled neighborhood of Waer in Homs city, with possibility to increase the death toll, activists reported. Two days ago, Assad forces killed dozens of rebel fighters who tried to break an army siege...

Asylum seekers' perilous path to Sweden

Over the past two years, Hussein witnessed the horrors of war in his hometown of Damascus. But the most frightening moment of his life did not come in Syria. Rather, it was during a stormy night in the Mediterranean Sea, when the small fishing boat carrying him and 15 other Syrians...

Iraq, Syria tests Obama's Mideast logic

An Al-Qaeda surge and Sunni-Shiite tumult spanning Iraq and Syria are testing eroded US influence and the logic of a foreign policy built on antipathy to Middle East entanglements. The return of jihadists to cities like Fallujah and Ramadi, fabled battlefields for US soldiers, has left...