Syria's state news agency is reporting that government forces have captured a suburb of Damascus near the capital's international airport. SANA says troops killed several rebels and destroyed their hideouts in the Ahmadiyeh area on Saturday, two days after a mortar round landed near the...

The founder of the Free Syrian Army expressed his fears through a message to Zaman Alwasl of deviation the Syria Revolution, stressing that the Assad regime can't be toppled as long as the military and political efforts are not at a high level of coordination and unity ....

Hassan Rowhani, the bearded cleric who is leading the pack in Iran's presidential election, is a moderate who has pledged to engage more with world powers in hopes of easing crippling economic sanctions. Rowhani, who headed Iran's nuclear negotiating team in the early 2000s under reformist...

As a group of rebels gathered in an apartment in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, debating the value of the United States’ decision to provide them with weapons, government forces nearby began pounding an opposition-held neighborhood. The opposing events led the group to focus...