Sudan said Tuesday it will press ahead with efforts to normalise ties with the United States despite Washington extending sanctions imposed on Khartoum that adversely impact the east African country. On Monday, President Barack Obama extended the sanctions by another year, saying Khartoum's...

(New York Times)- The guns were silent atop Mount Qasioun, and lights on its slopes twinkled over Damascus as President Bashar al-Assad welcomed visitors to his French-Ottoman palace below. It was possible to imagine, for a moment, that there was no war in Syria. The blasts that until...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime's security forces have deprived hundreds of families in Qamishli and Hasaka from receiving the humanitarian aid of the United Nations, claiming they have relatives against Bashar al-Assad. Activist Malaz al-Yusus explained that hundreds of families were...

Iranian lawmakers approved three new ministers on Tuesday, signaling support for changes in the cabinet of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani seven months before a presidential election. State media reported that Reza Salehi Amiri, Saeed Soltanifar and Fakhredin Ahmadi Danesh-Ashtiani won...