A group of EU lawmakers Friday urged the bloc's leaders to boycott this year's football World Cup in Russia to protest over Moscow's "mockery of European values". The 60 MEPs said all European Union countries should follow the lead of Britain and non-EU member Iceland in refusing to...

Britain's U.N. ambassador said Thursday the Russians and Syrians must uphold the promises they made to let chemical weapons inspectors visit the site of a suspected poisonous gas attack in the Damascus suburb of Douma - and "it should happen expeditiously." Karen Pierce said in an...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Regime forces began bombarding the Hajr al-Aswad neighborhood and Yarmouk Palestinian camp inside Damascus only hours after reports surfaced that Daesh (ISIS) militants would be given two days to leave, activists said Thursday. Local opposition activist Sami Dreid, in...

The Syrian regime took control of a town northeast of Damascus Thursday after rebels evacuated to north Syria the latest in a string of handovers by rebels to the regime. Residents in the town of Dumayr welcomed security forces into their town in a triumphant show for the cameras of the...