Syria opposition officials Wednesday criticized U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura after he said he could pick the opposition delegation representatives to U.N.-led talks in Geneva if they failed to do so. De Mistura Tuesday said the talks previously scheduled for February 8 had been postponed to...

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani dismissed his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump as a political novice on Wednesday, stepping up criticism of the Republican's immigration policies including a temporary travel ban on Iranians. Tehran has already said it will take legal, political and reciprocal...

Israeli police began evicting dozens of hardline Jewish settlers from a wildcat outpost on Wednesday, just hours after unveiling plans for 3,000 new homes in other West Bank settlements. Hundreds of officers marched into the Amona outpost near Ramallah to carry out the evictions ordered by...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- General Secretary of the Syrian National Coalition said the United Nations envoy for Syria is a partner in the killing of Syrian people, assuring that he is unable to form the opposition delegation unless they want to. Staffan de Mistura said Tuesday the UN-supported...