Several factions of the Syrian opposition, meeting together for the first time, called on Friday for a new coalition but did not reach agreement on who should attend peace talks later this month, or whether they would attend at all. With less than a fortnight to go until the first...

Loyal forces to Bashar al-Assad have killed at least 70 Syrian rebels as they sought to break a regime siege on part of Homs, in central Syria, local activists said on Thursday. Prominent dissident Omar Edelbi said that more than 70 rebel of the embattled city of Homs...

Tunisia's Islamist Prime Minister Ali Larayedh resigned on Thursday to make way for a caretaker government as part of a deal with his opponents to finish a transitional period. “I have just handed my resignation to the president,” Larayedh told reporters, in statements...

China is supporting the work of the UN and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to safely remove materials of chemical weapons from Syria, a Chinese envoy said here Wednesday. "There has been new development in the shipping out chemical weapons material from...