By ramping up his demands of any final nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears determined to stem the tide of international diplomacy which has turned against him in recent weeks. Netanyahu was stung by an interim agreement...
Dozens of people were killed in an eighth day of air strikes on Aleppo in Syria on Sunday, a watchdog said, as a bombing in Homs killed five schoolchildren. "Dozens of people were killed or wounded" in attacks that saw loyalist warplanes drop so-called barrel bombs near...
Syrian security forces detained another member of the regime-tolerated opposition on Saturday, his party said, accusing the authorities of trying to "terrorise" the group into silence. "This morning (Saturday), Monzer Khaddam, a member of the National Coordination Body's executive...
The body of a British doctor who died earlier this week in a Syrian prison, only days before he was expected to be freed after 13 months of detention, has arrived in Beirut en route to the United Kingdom. A Red Cross ambulance carried the coffin of Abbas Khan, a 32-year-old...
