Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said that his views on the Assad regime in Syria have not changed since he was prime minister of Turkey, emphasising that there is no salvation for Syria with Bashar al Assad. Speaking to reporters in Istanbul, Erdogan was asked about his...

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad must go, but it might be necessary to talk with him as part of a deal on a transition of power, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said in an interview published by French daily Le Monde on Friday. Departing from a strict U.S. and Western policy of not...

Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah on Friday welcomed Russia's military buildup in Syria in support of common ally President Bashar al-Assad, saying it was the failure of a U.S.-led campaign against Islamic State that had forced Moscow's hand. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah...

Swiss prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into Sepp Blatter, the head of world soccer body FIFA, on suspicion of criminal mismanagement and misappropriation of funds, the Swiss attorney general's office said on Friday. It said Blatter was interrogated after a meeting of...