Kurdish rebels based in north Iraq Monday claimed to have killed seven Iranian soldiers in clashes last week near the Islamic republic's border with Iraqi Kurdistan. "Iranian forces...attacked and swept the area near Sardasht," the PJAK said in a...
Following apparent chemical weapons attacks on August 21, 2013, in Eastern and Western Ghouta near Damascus, the United States, Britain, France, and other countries are assessing options for military intervention in Syria. Human...
The border crossing between Syria and Lebanon was frantic on Tuesday, as it had been for many months. But, unusually, amid the hordes of people at passport control on the Lebanese side of the Masnaa crossing were queues of well-heeled Syrians – types not often on the...
Russia has no plans to be drawn into war over Syria if Western powers launch a military attack on the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday. “We have no plans to go to war with anyone,” Lavrov said on Monday, according to Reuters....
