The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, has said that  "factors are not yet in place" for peace talks despite efforts by world powers to convene a meeting next month. In an interview with on Lebanon's Al-Mayadeen television, broadcast on Monday, Assad also said he desired a third term as...

A 12-year-old student armed with a handgun shot and killed a math teacher and critically wounded two classmates before killing himself at his Nevada middle school on Monday shortly before classes were due to begin, police said. Witnesses described a chaotic scene at the school in the...

  A fire broke out in the Syrian refugee camp of Ceylan Abinar in Urfa, Southern Turkey with no casualties reported, according to Zaman Alwasl sources.  Modar Ghzayyel, a Syrian refugee, said 25 tents have been burned where we found 25 families in urgent need for...

Al-Qaeda-linked group in a statement issued today claimed killing Assad's intelligence head in Deir al-Zour days ago. Jameh Jameh had been killed by the mortar rounds ofJabhat al-Nusra during its liberation battle of al-Rushdia neighborhood, 250 soldiers of Assad's army have...