At least six people have been killed on Sunday in the central Syrian province of Homs, five of them schoolchildren, the official SANA news agency reported. “Terrorists blew up a car bomb near the primary school in the town of Omm al-Amd in the countryside outside Homs,...

 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...