Italian lawmakers have elected the speakers of both chambers of parliament following an inconclusive March 4 election, giving the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement leadership of one chamber and Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia the other. Forza Italia Sen. Maria Elisabetta Alberti...

 Syrian rebels agreed to surrender a second besieged enclave in eastern Ghouta Friday, state television reported, as their comrades in another insurgent pocket in the area continued their withdrawal after a month-long assault by the army. Capturing eastern Ghouta, near the capital...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 37 people burned to death when Russia's warplanes pounded their underground shelter in Arbin town with Napalm and incendiary bombs, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Friday.  "Russian air strikes and incendiary weapons killed the...

Syrian rebels and their families left Eastern Ghouta Thursday under a Russian-brokered evacuation deal that is the first for the shrinking opposition enclave outside Damascus. They were bussed out in direction of the northwestern province of Idlib, after hours of waiting in a buffer...