Rebel mortar fire on government-held districts of the Syrian city of Aleppo killed at least 21 people and wounded 50 on Sunday, a monitoring group said. "The fire targeted regime-held neighbourhoods, including some in the Old City where the rebels are trying to advance," the...

The head of an international mission to Syria charged with destroying the country's chemical weapons called on President Bashar Assad's government Sunday to ensure it meets a deadline to destroy all its toxic chemicals. Also Sunday, four more candidates announced their candidacy for...

BAGHDAD (AP)- A government spokesman says security forces have ambushed a convoy of fuel tankers trying to illegally enter Iraq from Syria, killing at least eight drivers. Interior Ministry spokesman Saad Maan Ibrahim says the operation took place near the Iraqi border at dawn Sunday....

A French government spokesman denied on Sunday a report that it paid a ransom for the release a week ago of four French journalists held captive in Syria for more than 10 months. Focus, a German magazine, published on its website a report that France paid 18 million dollars for their...