An aid convoy carrying food and medicine is on its way to a besieged town southwest of the Syrian capital, the second humanitarian aid delivery to rebel-held areas near Damascus in as many days, a spokesman for the International Committee for the Red Cross said Wednesday. Pawel Krzysiek...

Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani has declared that the "time has come" for the country's Kurds to hold a referendum on statehood, his office said on Wednesday. "The time has come and the conditions are now suitable for the people to make a decision through a referendum on their future,"...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 women and children have been killed Tuesday in Russian air strikes on a Turkmen-dominated village in the northern countryside of Homs, medics told Zaman al-Wasl. In what seemed a deliberate Russian strikes on al-Burj village to provoke Turkey after reports of new...

A Syrian military offensive backed by heavy Russian air strikes threatened to cut critical rebel supply lines into the northern city of Aleppo on Tuesday, while the warring sides said peace talks had not started despite a U.N. statement they had. U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura...