Syrian troops and allied forces advanced overnight seizing Aleppo's Tariq al-Bab neighborhood from rebels as they press an offensive to recapture all of the city, activists said Saturday. The capture of the neighborhood means the government has now retaken around 60 percent of the east of...

 A senior Syrian opposition official accused Russia on Friday of procrastinating in talks with rebels over Aleppo, signaling no progress in diplomacy which rebels hoped would ease dire conditions in the city where they are in danger of defeat. Buoyed by its rapid capture of several whole...

King Salman bin Abdulaziz has replaced Saudi Arabia's labor minister, state media reported on Friday, after recent statistics showed a rise in unemployment in the world's top oil exporter. In a royal decree read on state television, the king also reshuffled the country's top religious body,...

Syrian regime forces have recaptured half the former rebel stronghold of east Aleppo, a monitor said Friday, in an offensive that has left bodies in streets and sparked global outrage. Rebels put up fierce resistance in the southeastern outskirts of the battered city, but government forces...