(Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has accused the West of trying to weaken Russia by turning Ukraine into a puppet state, a tactic he said had also been used against his own country. "I keep coming back to the fact that there is a connection between the Syrian crisis...

Syrian army helicopters dropped barrel bombs on Daraa al- Balad suburb in the southern city of Daraa, killing at least 22 civilians, including 4 children, a monitoring group said Thursday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the death toll is expected to rise...

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(Al Arabiya News)- King Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia ordered the beginning of a sweeping military operation against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen early on Thursday, Al Arabiya News Channel reported, citing Saudi sources King Salman gave his order at 12 a.m. on Thursday,...