Regime air strikes and artillery fire in northwestern Syria, including on schools in the city of Idlib, killed 21 civilians on Tuesday, activists and a war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said eight children were among those killed in the raids on Idlib city and...

Russia is gearing up for a multilateral meeting on Syria with Iran and Turkey, the Kremlin spokesman said Tuesday. When asked about a possible meeting between Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russia's President Vladimir Putin on March 5, Dmitry Peskov said they are eyeing another...

Israel is planning to build 46,000 settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli minister said on Tuesday. "I instructed the ministry's planning teams to prepare plans to expand communities in Judea and Samaria [the West Bank]. We currently have plans to build 46,000 housing...

Saudi Aramco is launching the biggest shale gas development outside of the United States to boost domestic gas supply and end the burning of oil at its power generation plants, Chief Executive Officer Amin Nasser told Reuters Monday. The world's top crude oil exporter has for years battled...