President Vladimir Putin reaffirmed Russia's support for Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad on Friday and said he opposed any use of external force to try to end the Syrian civil war. Putin showed no sign of wavering in his policy of trying to shield Assad from pressure from the West in a 4...

A fistfight erupted on the sidelines of peace talks in Geneva on Thursday between supporters of different warring factions in Yemen, underlining the divisions that have thwarted United Nations efforts broker a truce in the near three-month conflict. Yemeni opponents of the Houthi forces that...

(Reporting by Ahmad Primo; translation by Yusra Ahmed) Zaman al-Wasl has met with Saqer Abo Kotaiba, the commander of 'Fastakem Kama Omert', one of the key rebel formations in Aleppo, said rebels were able to regain many posts from the Islamic State, but ISIS got closer to the Infantry School...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has offered his condolences over the death of former Turkish president Suleyman Demirel. In a letter of condolence issued by the Turkish Presidency on Wednesday, Erdogan said that he learnt with sorrow about the death of Turkey’s ninth president....