Syria is committed to a deal to hand over its chemical weapons, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview, as major powers inched closer to a UN resolution enshrining the agreement. The Syrian president, in an interview with Venezuelan television station Telesur broadcast on Wednesday,...

    Abdelaziz Salame, the highest political leader of the Tawhid Brigade in Aleppo, has issued a statement online where he claims to speak for 13 different rebel factions. You can see the video or read it in Arabic  here . The statement is...

Iranian President Hassan Rowhani urged U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday to ignore “war-mongering pressure groups” at home in dealing with the Iranian nuclear dispute. In an address to the U.N. General Assembly in New York -- his first appearance on the world stage as Iran’s...

 Seeking to build on diplomatic opportunities, President Barack Obama is expected to signal his willingness to engage with the new Iranian government if Tehran makes nuclear concessions long sought by the U.S. and Western allies. Obama, in a planned address to the United Nations General...