A military news service run by Lebanon's pro-Damascus Hezbollah group said the evacuation of eastern Aleppo had been halted Friday partly due to a failure to evacuate wounded people from two Shiite villages besieged by rebels in Idlib. It also cited previous reasons given for the suspension...

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman says Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is a 'butcher' who should be thrown out of the country along with his Iranian allies. "In my personal opinion, Assad is a butcher who massacred and murdered people," Lieberman told a conference of Jews from the...

The evacuation of 5,000 Syrian rebels and their family members from eastern Aleppo has begun, the TASS news agency cited the Russian defense ministry as saying on Thursday. A Russian military official was quoted as saying the rebels and their families would be evacuated via a humanitarian...

Kuwait's new oil minister said Thursday he expects crude prices to climb to $60 a barrel as output cuts agreed by OPEC and non-OPEC producers take hold next year. Essam al-Marzouk gave no timeframe for his projection, saying only that he was optimistic producers would comply with the agreed...