Official results confirm that Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives have won Germany's election, but indicate that they have finished short of an absolute majority. Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party together won 41.5 percent of the vote,...

Istanbul will host the founding conference for Syrian Democrats Union for two days between 28 - 29 September under the leadership Of Michael Kilo, the veteran dissident and former political prisoner .   The conference will come after a...

 Angela Merkel may not personally like Vladimir Putin very much, but the German chancellor is surely pleased the Russian president’s diplomatic efforts have temporarily averted U.S. plans for a military strike against Syria. Constrained by Germany’s jingoistic past and a looming...

  Russian President Vladimir Putin set a condition that endangers the diplomatic initiative to eliminate  Syria ’s chemical weapons, saying it depends on the U.S. and other nations renouncing the use of force against Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Putin’s remarks complicate...