As Syria's war nears the start of its fourth year,  Iran has stepped up support on the ground for President Bashar al-Assad, providing elite teams to gather intelligence and train troops, sources with knowledge of military movements say. This further backing from Tehran,...

Despite a forthcoming review of options in the deteriorating  Syria  crisis, the White House on Tuesday signaled that President  Barack Obama  remains wary of any direct U.S. involvement in the three-year-old civil war. U.S. policy toward  Syria...

The Greek philosopher Aristotle believed that the universe had existed for ever. The reason humanity was not more developed, he believed, was that floods or other natural disasters repeatedly set civilisation back to the beginning. Today, humans are developing ever faster. Our...

   Syria   has relinquished only 11 percent of its chemical weapons in three shipments and is on track to miss a politically-loaded midyear deadline to completely destroy the toxic stockpile, sources told Reuters on Friday. Syria  should already have handed...