Clashes between anti-government fighters and regime forces killed 51 combattants on both sides in northwestern Syria Tuesday, a war monitor said. Russia-backed regime fighters have for weeks been chipping away at the edges of the jihadist-run stronghold of Idlib -- a province that borders...

The scene, amid a sweeping reform drive, was a striking contrast to the days when religious police wielded unbridled powers and drove people out of malls and shops to enforce the Islamic world's only mandatory prayer-time shutdown. Last month Riyadh, keen to stimulate an economy hit by low...

A member of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards was killed in northwest Iran near the border with Iraq on Monday, the semi-official Fars news agency reported in a Twitter posting. The Guards member was “assassinated” in the town of Piranshahr, Fars said. It gave no information about who...

 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that the Russian-backed Syrian regime offensive in Idlib did not violate any agreements with Turkey, the RIA news agency reported. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday that...