Turkey’s president on Tuesday officially asked Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to form a new government following the Nov. 1 general election. “Mr. President accepted Konya deputy and Chairman of the Justice and Development Party Ahmet Davutoglu at the presidential complex and has tasked...

Syria will only share intelligence information with France if Paris changes its policies in the region, President Bashar Assad said in an interview with French magazine Valeurs Actuelles. "If the French government is not serious in its fight against terrorism, we will not waste our time...

The annual birth rate in Syria has fallen by more than half since the civil war broke out in 2011, Al-Watan newspaper reported Tuesday. Salah al-Sheikha, dean of Damascus University's faculty of medicine, told the newspaper that before the war Syria recorded around 500,000 births per year....

Russia told the United Nations on Monday it was "outraged" by allegations that it had killed civilians in Syria and destroyed civilian infrastructure as a U.S.-based rights group accused Moscow's air force of bombing 10 medical facilities in October. Russia launched air strikes...