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Riyadh to host Gulf summit this week: Papers

Saudi capital Riyadh would host a summit of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) leaders this week in a bid to end a diplomatic rift between Qatar on one hand and Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain on the other, two Gulf newspapers reported Sunday. Saudi Asharq Al-Awsat...

Afghan MP targeted by suicide bomber, 3 killed

A suicide car bomber targeted the vehicle of an Afghan MP in the capital Kabul on Sunday, killing at least three civilians and injuring 20 others, Afghan authorities said. The driver detonated his explosive-laden car near the vehicle of prominent Afghan MP Shukria...

Iran denies nuclear scientist killed in Syria: IRNA

ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran denied on Wednesday a monitoring group's report that an Iranian nuclear scientist had been killed in Syria last week, according to the official IRNA news agency. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday five nuclear...

Syria's Assad says UN truce plan 'worth studying'

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad said Monday that the U.N. envoy's proposal to implement a cease-fire in the embattled northern city of Aleppo was "worth studying." The envoy, Staffan de Mistura, first raised the idea of small-scale, localized and negotiated...