Until a few weeks ago, Saudi Arabia was riding high. Its regional policies, based on countering revolutionary fervour and containing Iran, appeared to be bearing fruit. Egypt’s army ousted the Islamist president, to plaudits and generous funding from Riyadh; the Syrian...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told a German magazine he would not negotiate with rebels until they laid down their arms, and said he was still considering whether to run for office again next year. In an extensive interview with Der Spiegel, Assad said he did not believe it was...

Sixteen-year-old Mohammad al Zeibaa lost his entire family in the sarin gas attack east of Damascus six weeks ago, surviving the world's deadliest chemical weapons strike in a quarter century only because he was out working a hospital night shift. Mohammad's father, who rushed to the...

  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has told Turkey it will pay a heavy price for backing rebels fighting to oust him, accusing it of harboring “terrorists” along its border who would soon turn against their hosts. In an interview with Turkey’s Halk TV due to be...