Iran's foreign minister held rare private talks with his U.S. counterpart on Sunday and said it would be a "disaster" if Tehran did not turn a provisional agreement to defuse a decade-old dispute over its nuclear program into a permanent deal. In a sign of the thawing climate between...

A double bomb attack in Aleppo carried out by al-Qaeda-affiliated group, the Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL), claimed the lives of at least 16 Syrian rebel fighters on Sunday, an NGO said. The attack, which took place in the town of al-Ra'ei, not far from...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov assured to the key Opposition president his support to a transitional governing body, Zaman Alwasl’s sources quoted Mr. Ahmad Assi Al Jarba saying. National Coalition opposition chief is to visit Moscow on Tuesday at...