Melbourne (AFP) - Serena Williams won her sixth Australian Open and 19th career Grand Slam with a hard-fought win over bitter rival Maria Sharapova on Saturday, consolidating her place among the game's legends. The 6-3, 7-6 (7/5) triumph means the American world number one...

(Reuters) - The next meeting between some Syrian opposition figures and the Damascus government in Moscow will take place in about a month, Qadri Jamil, a participant in this week's consultations, said on Friday. The Moscow talks, which ended on Thursday, are not seen as...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- As fighting between the Nusra Front and Western-backed Hazzm movement in northern Syria has been escalated, the Shamiya Front announced Friday that Hazzm has joined its ranks to pull the fuse of war with al-Qaeda arm in Syria....

(Reuters) - Japan and Jordan scrambled on Friday to find out what had happened to two of their nationals being held by Islamic State, after a deadline passed for the release of a would-be suicide bomber being held on death row in Amman. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe...