The United States on Saturday said it hoped Hassan Rouhani, Iran's newly re-elected president, will halt his country's support for "destabilizing forces", end ballistic missile tests and carry out democratic reforms during his second term. "We hope that if Rouhani wanted to change Iran's...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian refugees in Lebanese town of Arsal went to streets on Friday calling for the release of their relatives in the Lebanese prisons as hunger strike enters the fifth day in the notorious Roumieh prison. The Syrian refugees have joined a public Lebanese demand of...

A pro-regime convoy that was struck by U.S.-led warplanes inside Syria this week likely was directed by Iran, Pentagon chief Jim Mattis said Friday. The strike on the convoy heading toward a coalition garrison near the Jordanian border was "necessitated by offensive movement with offensive...

Syria's warring sides entered a final day of U.N.-backed talks on Friday with little sign of progress towards ending the conflict and with negotiations overshadowed by swelling tensions on the ground. The sixth round of talks in Geneva was the latest effort to bring a political solution to...