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...

An attempt to evacuate people in need of medical attention from rebel-held eastern Aleppo stalled on Thursday when fighters loyal to the Syrian government fired on the convoy, wounding three, the head of the ambulance service said. The vehicles had intended to leave under a deal to evacuate...