(AFP)- The Syrian government signed a deal with a Russian firm Monday for the first phase of an irrigation project for the drought-hit northeast of the war-torn country, state media said. The project, which had been planned before the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Two Palestinians were shot dead and seven people wounded in a gunfight in southern Beirut on Monday on the edge of the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila, security sources said. It was not immediately clear what caused the confrontation in the Lebanese...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia warned the United States on Monday against stepping up support for Syria's opposition, saying it would only bolster a caliphate declared by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in part of Iraq and Syria. Baghdad called for international...

Germany were given a major scare before beating Algeria 2-1 on Monday to book a FIFA World Cup quarter-final meeting with France. After a pulsating 90 minutes in Porto Alegre had ended goalless, Chelsea forward Andre...