Syrian government forces edged closer to a key rebel town in the coastal province of Latakia Friday, backed by Russian air strikes and military advisers, activists said. Soldiers and pro-government fighters advanced to around five kilometers (three miles) from the town of Rabia, the...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday he believed that, with effort and good faith on both sides, it would be possible to implement the Minsk agreements on Ukraine in coming months to allow for a lifting of sanctions on Russia. In a speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Dozens of regime troops and allied militias have been killed in clashes with ISIS near Mahin town in the eastern countryside of Homs province, activists said Friday. 8 militants from the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) were among the dead as the fighting near...

Tunisia has declared a nationwide curfew after days of protests and rioting over jobs and economic conditions, the interior ministry announced . Protests over unemployment in the country, which started in the western Kasserine province, intensified and spread to other parts of the...