On Sunday, September 29, President Bashar al-Assad declared to the world, via an interview on Italian television, his resolve to clear Syria  of chemical weapons - accepting a Russian-brokered deal to avert punitive U.S. action. That same morning his forces appear to have dropped...

  U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi was in Baghdad Monday on the next leg of a regional tour to build support for talks aimed at ending Syria's civil war, the foreign ministry said. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari met Brahimi at the airport, a statement on the...

  A suicide bomber driving a truck packed with 1.5 tons of explosives killed at least 31 people and wounded dozens in the Syrian city of Hama on Sunday, state media and a monitoring group reported. The man blew himself up inside the vehicle on a busy road on the...

  Washington may press Iran to import nuclear fuel rather than make it, an official said as talks to end the standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program were to begin. “We are prepared to talk about what President Obama said in his address at the U.N. General Assembly...