Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has signed into law a new bill expanding the powers of a government ministry overseeing religious affairs and limiting the term of the country’s top Muslim cleric. The draft, which state media reported Assad had signed into law Friday, had been amended...

Rebels have fired mortar shells from a planned buffer zone in northwest Syria, an activist group said Sunday, days after they were meant to have withdrawn such weapons from the area. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said rebels in the zone fired several "mortar shells at an army...

 U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Riyadh Saturday with "severe punishment" if a journalist was killed inside its Istanbul consulate, as Saudi officials were to hold talks in Turkey about his fate. With the mystery over Jamal Khashoggi unresolved 11 days after he walked into the...

Saudi Arabia must cooperate with the investigation into the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and allow Turkish officials to enter its Istanbul consulate, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Saturday. Cavusoglu spoke to reporters during a visit to London, after a...