BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's al Qaeda offshoot Nusra said on Friday it killed a captive Lebanese soldier in retaliation for the arrest by Lebanese authorities of women identified as wives of Islamist militants. The soldier was one of more than...

Saudi Arabia and Gulf countries are to maintain their market share and resist falling oil prices, say experts. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, convened on Nov. 27 in Vienna to devise a strategy against falling oil prices,...

Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that there has not yet been any decision to move forward with any form of a safe zone for Syrian refugees. "There’s a lot of discussion going on about the way we will go forward. But it is premature to suggest at this...

(Reuters)- A second group of 150 Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces has entered the Syrian border town of Kobane from Turkey to replace a first group helping Kurdish forces fight off a siege by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants, Peshmerga sources said on Thursday....