Washington: The United States expressed concern Thursday that preparations for Myanmar's landmark elections have been undermined by moves to exclude Muslim minority candidates from the ballot. Myanmar will vote on November 8 in what many hope will be its most free vote in generations...

Barrel bomb attacks by Syrian regime helicopters killed at least 22 civilians late Thursday in a rebel-held town near southern city of Daraa, a monitoring group said as Thursday's death toll rises to 99 across Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said regime helicopters "dropped...

Any Iranian bank receiving sanctions relief under a nuclear deal signed in July between Iran and six world powers would see sanctions re-imposed if it were found to be supporting Hezbollah or Iran's Qods Force, a U.S. Treasury official said on Thursday. U.S. Treasury Department's...

A new massacre committed by Syrian regime air force in al-Sha'ar neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo, leaving at least 20 people killed on Thursday what rises the death toll in the last 72 hours to 60, activists and monitoring groups said. Regime's devastating air campaign was extended...