Russia's Vladimir Putin derailed Barack Obama's efforts to win backing for the downfall of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad at a G8 summit on Tuesday, warning the West that arms supplied to the rebels could be used for attacks on European soil. After two days of intense talks that fell...

A member of Oxfam lays flowers in front of the City Hall in Belfast June 17, 2013. At their first private face-to-face meeting in a year, U.S. President Barack Obama will try to find common ground with Russia's President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of a G8 summit in Northern...

Sadness is written on the face of 45-year-old Jamila, living in the open-air municipal courtyard of Arsal in Lebanon and still traumatised by her escape from Syria's former rebel stronghold Qusayr. Along with her sick husband and three children, she fled the town in Syria's central province...

  An official source in the Syrian regime has stressed Sunday that Mohammad Morsi, by cutting off all ties with Syria, has joined the Israel-US-led band of conspiring and instigating against it. Syrian Arab news Agency SANA reported. The source pointed out that Morsi's...