Iran has acknowledged the deaths of at least 400 militia fighters in Syria, according to information posted on the country’s official news agency. The IRNA agency didn’t issue a report on the latest casualty figure, but noted in a photo caption that the country has held 400 funerals...

The head of Syria's domestic opposition, the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change, told Zaman al Wasl that he opposed Russian air strikes targeting moderate Free Syrian Army since it accepts a political solution. Hassan Abdel Azim said hitting FSA's strongholds will not drive us to...

Turnout was so low in the first round of Egypt's parliamentary elections, that satirist Bassem Youssef derided it as an ingenious strategy to show the world Egypt had rid itself of its notorious overcrowding. Empty polling stations highlight disillusionment with Egypt's chaotic...

Kurdish-led authorities in northern Syria have declared a new province including a town on the border with Turkey captured from Islamic State in June, a Kurdish official said on Wednesday, formalizing Kurdish control over the border area, Reuters reported The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia...