MOSCOW (Reuters) - Tehran has not received a request from Baghdad to supply it with weapons but is ready to do so if asked, Iran's deputy foreign minister said on Tuesday during a visit to Moscow. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said that Tehran had no plans to send troops to back...

I WILL never know when or why Hakim Anza, a Syrian rebel commander whom I had once trusted, decided to betray me. I would hazard a guess that three years of savage war, combined with reports — rampant in every bazaar of northern Syria — of huge sums paid for...

GIOIA TAURO, Italy (AP) — The U.S. ship MV Cape Ray arrived Tuesday in the southern Italian port of Gioia Tauro for the unprecedented transfer and destruction of about 1,300 tons of Syrian chemical weapons. The 648-foot (197.5-meter) U.S. government cargo ship has been fitted...

BEIRUT (The Daily Star): Saudi King Abdullah appointed Prince Bandar Bin Sultan as his special envoy and Prince Khaled bin Bandar as head of Saudi Intelligence two days after the latter’s dismissal as deputy defense minister. Abdullah had sacked Khaled from his...